Parroquia+de+San+Gines

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Where is?
This parish is in the street Arenal Nº 18

In which year was build?
The parish was build in the middle of the seventeenth century  and along with paintings and pictures that are inside so much historical, artistic and architectural called Madrid of the Austrais. The built Mr. Juan Ruiz.

What did they build it for?
They did for the inhabitants of the street Arenal for have a place to pray their prayers.As they needed a church to stay together and to pray to one God.

Who paid to build and who build?
 He ordered to build an architect named Jose Luis Marin at the time of the then parish priest brother Josè Ignacio Marina Nuñez de Prado and then build by José María Aguilar that was the same as when the cathedral had three fires he renewed.

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The building is a catholic temple that was bu ilding by San Gines de Arles. Their facades was located in the nº13 of the street Arenal. The parish was build at the middle of the XVII century and inside of there, there are many paintings and historical sculptures, artistic and very architectural Madrid de Los Austrias. When finally was executed the work in (1870-1872) was mainly characterized by his pitched arcs and his neo-clasic style. The facades were changed. To not broken the continuity were added some decorative elements of what he had done Aguilar that now would be common to the other side of the building.The original construction of which is now only the tower is the Mudejar style, the current structure of the transformation is that in 1645 the temple suffered.

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For what do we use now?
We use now for the tourist of other countries or the same country, we can see the exelents paintings and historical scultures that are inside. Now a days is still praying there a nd givi ng mass all the sundays.

Why is so important?
Is important because it has a bigger variety of scultures and paintings, the church or the parish is one of the places where Lopez de Vega that was a poetist was baptized and was married Quezedo and in a chapel it conserve a dissected cocodrile.

Leyends, stories and anecdotes.
The church was sacked of its artistic treasure, was collapse a part of the building of the humidity. The access that is used to enter to the temple that has like a ground which are founded the old cementery of San Gines. In the church is the Virgin de los Remedios which became famous by a dissected cocodrile that is down the Virgin. The leyend account that Alonso de Montalbán,detention by the catholic monarchs of his travel to America when a cocodrile was attack to they and a giant tree was falled in the cocodrile that killed it, in appreciation took the cocodrile to the church.

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