Boadilla del Camino .

BOADILLA DEL CAMINO

The name of Boadilla bollada or small, would come to mean “cattle pasture” and not as has been telling the small hollow or hoyada. that name would be imposed in the Christian repopulation of the ninth century.

What “the Way” and you know it refers to the Camino de Santiago or Jacobean Route that started since 812. In the final years of the tenth century quoted locally as “Bobadiella”.

Bobadilla del Camino has two important artistic landmarks: the roll of justice, since February 18, 1960, owned by the municipality; and the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, from December 17, 1981, and own the bishopric of Palencia.

It was repopulated by Fernan Armentales Boadilla, instead of Behetría, retaining, with his church, an extraordinary roll dated between the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. this roll on a circular base sits five steps. The shanks is ribbed and decorated with rosettes and shells. Upstairs, two overlapping rings with interlaced plant, below the animal, and top with masks and heads. Above them, he cresting magnificent clump of shed and finished off with apiramidado pinnacle.

The church of Our Lady of the Assumption is a temple construction began in the sixteenth century and ended in the seventeenth century, but with major reforms to 1770. Its plant stands on three ships, with a tower on the side the gospel; at the head of a Gothic apse and other Renaissance.

neoclassic altarpiece of the eighteenth century on the side of the Epistle, adorned with a relief of the Virgin giving a rosary to Santo Domingo de Guzman. The altarpiece of the Presbytery, was carried out by Pedro de Flanders, Matthew Lancrin and Juan de Cambray in 1548 predela consisting of three bodies and attic. In the predella reliefs of the Mercy and the Epiphany and images of Mary Magdalene and holy bishop; in the second painting of the Marriage of the Virgin and the Nativity and images of San Juan Bautista and San Antonio Abad. In the third body, the Virgin Birth and Adoration of the Shepherds and image of St. Gregory the Assumption and St. Jerome. High relief in the attic of the Coronation of the Virgin, painted angels and prophets, and in the fronton, the Eternal Father bless.

In the Gospel nave, Renaissance altarpiece with magnificent paintings attributed to Juan de Villoldo, with several scenes. Sculptures with scenes of Jesus tied to the column, Golgotha, the Pieta and the Eternal Father. Good baptismal font transition to Gothic.