Church of Santa María de la Asunción – The New

It is the parish of Zumarraga, and it is very curious, because it is the result of a varied mixture of styles and periods. The church began to be built in 1576 and, being a process that was prolonged in the time it was capturing architectural styles of different periods. When it began to be built in the XVI century the influences of the Gothic can be seen; but its main doorway seems to be of Renaissance origin and the portico through which we access it from the XIX century. The gothic has semicircular arches in the interior decoration and there is a beautiful altarpiece of the eighteenth century.

This is the second parish of the village. In the past most of the people of Zumarraga lived in the mountains, for fear of the floods that developed with the rains in the bottom of the valley and the sanitary problems derived from the insects. Zumarraga was formed almost exclusively by people who lived in dispersed hamlets around the parish of Santa María de Zumárraga or better known as La Antigua (first parish of Zumarraga). In the middle of the 16th century there was a judicial process in the town, in which they decided to move the parish to the valley, near the river, where more and more families were settling. And so the New Parish was born and for this reason, the other/the first one is known as the Old Parish “La Antigua” today.