Church of San Lorenzo

Next to the church stands the chapel of Jesus, containing bas-relief by artist Juan de Juni. This is 13th-century church, located at the heart of the Mudejar quarter. It has a basilica-shaped layout with three naves, three semicircular apses arranged like a drum and a portico attached to one of the naves. The four-leveled tower stands on top of the presbytery. Blind arches, brick frieze and pilasters sticking out of the wall make up the ornaments. Nowadays, the naves are plaster-covered. There is a staircase, at the Northern end, leads up to the tower. It has a circular plan with a conical finishing done in 1983. At the foot of the temple remain two Mozarabic capitals, joined at their base. They hold up a hollowed cymatium, used as a holy water font. These capitals come from the Dommos Sanctos monastery and were built in 930 AD. At the epistle’s nave, and next to the temple’s apse, there is a late 19^th century sepulcher. At the same time, a groin, baptismal font stands at the epistle’s apse, leaning on a Baroque bracket.

The Chapel of Jesus (Capilla de Jesús), attached to the church, keeps the “pasos procesionales” (the religious figures used as processional floats at Holy Week’s –Easter- parades), as well as a reredos dating from 1730, by Juan de Juni. Inside, the temple’s decorations are images and reredos related to the art school of Becerra and Gregorio Fernández.

Address: Plaza de San Lorenzo s/n, 24320, Sahagún (León)

Phone number: (+34) 987780884

Opening times: June 15 through September 15, Monday to Saturday from 10.30 AM to 1.30 PM and 4 to 6 PM. Sundays and holidays from 10 to 3. Closed on Mondays, even on holiday periods.

September 16 through June 14, Sundays 12 PM to 2 PM. If you wish to visit the temple any other time, please contact the parish priest.