San Nicolás de Soria — Attraction in Soria

This little church, occupying a small plot between two streets in the old town, was built originally in the 12th and 13th centuries, and started falling down, bit by bit, in the 17th and 18th.

It is now an open-air concert and theatre space, with the walls now supported by steel and protected by large transparent panels where there are mural paintings. It is interesting to see what is the skeleton of a Romanesque ecclesiastical building revealed in this way.

One of the paintings behind a screen is said to show the martyrdom of Thomas à Becket, he of whom the English King Henry II said, allegedly, “Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?”, interpreted by his courtiers as an invitation to murder Thomas. It does make you wonder how this information got from Canterbury Cathedral to a little...

Ruinas románicas de San Nicolás, en mitad de Soria. Es curioso el fresco que hay en uno de los laterales de la iglesia que representa el asesinato del Obispo Tomás Beket en la Abadía de Canterbury. Y lo increíble es que haya aguantando en buenas condiciones climáticas con la cantidad de tiempo que estuvo al aire libre sin conservar más que tapado con...

Estuve muchos años antes de que fuera rehabilitada, cuando se podía bajar a la piscina bautismal, totalmente descubierta a falta del suelo de la nave principal( ahora por lo que veo está cubierta por una tarima ). En aquel momento, antes de su intervención, tenia un ambiente muy muy especial, previo a visitar San Saturio y San Bartolomé de Ucero,...