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QUATRETONDA Population: 2.278 hab. Municipal area: 43 km2 Altitude: 224 m. Demonym: quatretondĂ , quatretondana Town Hall Phone no.: 96 226 45 71 Web: www.quatretonda.es E-mail: registre@quatretonda.org MONUMENTS Church of saints Juanes It is of a Baroque period in general, although it combines different artistic styles. The temple has a unique nave, wide rectangular plan, with side chapels between buttresses. It features a single cross vault cover in the first three sections, from terceletes to the cruiser and crashed in the presbytery. Highlights include Valencian ceramic tiles of chapel of sacrament or transaltar that represent the characteristic emblems of the Patriarch. Also noteworthy is the altarpiece on the door of the sacristy, painting of the seventeenth century, which represents the Virgin delivering the scapular. Inside the sacristy we find a fresco
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painting depicting the archangel S. Gabriel edged of an eighteenth-century medallion, with decorative characteristics of the rococo. The chapel of the communion of the nineteenth century, in an academic style, presents interesting paintings in the dome, although in a sorry state, and the side murals are from the 60s, by M. Vaquero. The Bell tower At the foot of the church rises the towerbell tower, composed of three bodies and finish. Baroque work of 1694 with elements that survive from the Gothic, case of the pointed arches that form the body of the bells, and the Renaissance ornamental details are shown in the balls and pinnacles.
