Navarrete .

NAVARRETE

The villages were finally Corcuetos empty when all its inhabitants decided to move to strategic Cerro Tedeón and thus build their homes near the castle. The buildings were extended southwards anarchic way but always concentrically and staggered to make better use sunlight way.

The compact streets turn were forming a defensive barrier elongated appearance in a crescent facing the settlement an air of bastida. At the highest level delCollado workers of the olleros then be located.

Now, when the skyline begins to take shape and acquire own personality it is at the precise moment that a first small church associated with a small square to the cemetery functions is based.

This church moved to a lower place at a later date and between this and a square, a street long haul, better designed than existing to date waddled around the hill and where they took up residence the most illustrious and wealthy characters the Ville.

This Main Street formed in turn a defensive barrier with the facades of their houses to the south, but later the result of urban development was created under her another avenue, Calle Nueva or Cal Nueva, which even today can wander the Cocinos gloomy, (where Public Butchers is hubicarían in order to throw trash into a small water channel) westward from the Puerta del Caño (now Cuesta del Caño) to go opening increasingly to higher levels if it is true that in this case the rear facades facing the arena formed a solid canvas with the clarifier name La Almena, place coveted by navarretanos to build their houses.

Today is preserved and regains its old part and the layout of a walled city is observed. The cellars built into the hillside, facilitating the drilling of wineries for wine making. This arrangement makes superscript has many arcades that give a characteristic image housing. The traditional architecture is based on the use of stone masonry very well together with brick, very common material in this village of pottery tradition.

Special mention deserves the Parish Church, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary. Ashlar construction of three ships, covered with cross vaults. The choir is low and the tower is emplaced at the foot and three bodies, also in stone. The cover is oriented south and overlooks the square. It has two doors framed by columns and covered by two gables. Its construction began in 1533. The tower was built in the seventeenth century. Inside the altarpiece impresses with its golden Solomonic columns, that make this work one of the best Baroque Riojano late seventeenth. In the sacristy is a triptych with representations of the Virgin, San Pedro and San Juan. Visiting hours are Monday to Sunday from 11.00 to 14.00. and from 17.00 to 20.00 h., Sunday afternoon closed. It is also noteworthy around it, the “granary” recovered and that leads to the hill Tedeón.