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Dosante
Dosante is a population entity that together with Ahedo de las Pueblas, Brizuela, Busnela, Cidad de Valdeporres, Leva, Pedrosa de Valdeporres, Puentedey, Quintanabaldo, Robredo de las Pueblas, Rosas and San Martín de las Ollas make up the municipality of Merindad de Valdeporres in Burgos.
This small town was described in volume VII of the Diccionario geográfico-estadístico-histórico de España y sus posesiones de Ultramar (Geographical-statistical-historical dictionary of Spain and its overseas possessions) written in the second half of the 19th century by Pascual Madoz. The document states that it was located in a narrow valley, which meant that the hamlet was sheltered from the winds. The document went on to say that at that time it consisted of some 11 houses, as well as a parish church dedicated to Nuestra Señora de las Nieves. It was also reported that the main crops grown there were cereals such as wheat, barley, rye and maize; as for livestock breeding, the focus was on sheep and cattle.
Today, the most outstanding feature of the village is the church dedicated to Santa María la Mayor. The temple is located in the southern part of Dosante. The church seems to have been built in the early 13th century. It consists of a single nave with a square chancel and a modern sacristy attached to the northern wall. Very good quality sandstone masonry was used in the construction of this infrastructure. Today, only the chancel and the first section of the nave remain standing of the old late Romanesque building.
Inside, there is a barrel vault over transverse arches and the rectangular baptismal font, which is still preserved and on which a grooved moulding and a cross inside a circle can be distinguished.