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St. Cecilia's Chapel
On a cliff on the outskirts of Vallespinoso de Aguilar stands St. Cecilia's Chapel, a 12th century building that was declared a Historical and Artistic Monument in 1951 and restored in 1957.
The church has a single nave and presbytery, both with a pointed barrel vault and a semicircular apse. A tower stands at the south side whose base starts out quadrangular and later becomes cylindrical and is covered with a half sphere. A small belfry completes its beauty.
In the apse, there are three loophole windows with semicircular arches on columns and archivolts and a cornice decorated with corbels.
Its very elaborate doorway opens with an arch made of six archivolts, decorated with acanthus, stems, leaves and roundels that rest on straight columns. The capitals of these columns create a frieze with plant motifs and historical scenes that include the Judgment of the Souls and the Three Marys.
Inside, the capitals of the main arch are decorated with the scene of Samson and the lion in one and two griffins facing each other in the other.