San Carlos del Valle opens from its splendid Plaza Mayor with an orthogonal projection and an almost round perimeter. Everything extends around a radiated origin, the centre of that circumference, the church of Santísimo Cristo del Valle, where the peak of the compass overwhelms us. It is a late baroque church, with certain influences of the neoclassical style. It is an immense cube with four towers superimposed at its corners and an enormous dome that emerges over the building. The temple has four facades, two of which have a main door of extraordinary beauty and well-deserved study in their centre.

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The beautiful main square was built by the same architect with the intention of being like an atrium to frame it and integrate it into the complex. The square is an enormous rectangle measuring almost 53 m long by 21 m wide: on one side, the Town Hall with a cantilevered balcony on wooden corbels; on the other, the Casa Grande de la Hospedería. It has a carriage yard with wooden galleries opening onto it. From its sides arise the brick arches that give way to the wide, straight radial streets of this town.

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Built between 1713 and 1729 as part of the monumental complex that includes the Church of the Most Holy Christ of the Valley.
Declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 1993.
Originally conceived as a church atrium, it was transformed into a unique porticoed plaza in La Mancha.

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