El Burgo de Osma (El Burgo de Osma-Ciudad de Osma) is a municipality and town of the province of Soria, head of the judicial district of El Burgo de Osma, autonomous community of Castilla y León, Spain. It is located in the Tierra del Burgo. From the standpoint of the Catholic Church hierarchy is part of the Diocese of Osma which, in turn, belongs to the Archdiocese of Burgos.
La Ciudad de Osma is the early medieval historical center, while El Burgo de Osma is the neighboring village, Villa declared of Tourist Interest in 1962 and a Historic-Artistic Site in 1993.
In 2010 the population was 5,287 inhabitants, 2,639 men and 2,648 women
"The Cathedral of Burgo de Osma is a gothic-style building that replaced a previous Romanesque. Construction started in 1232, also shows other stylistic contributions, concluding with the neoclassical (1784). Like many other English cathedrals of the thirteenth century, was dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin. "
" The main entrance of the Cathedral of Burgo de Osma is opened at the southern end of the cruise. The bottom of the cover consists of a series of blind arches formed by trefoil arches raised on a low podium. These arches serve as base for the sculpture of Moses, the Archangel Gabriel and the Virgin form the scene of the Annunciation on the left and the Queen of Sheba, Solomon and Judith on the right side. Mullion is located in El Salvador, set in place in 1482 to entreaties of Cardinal Mendoza.
Death of the Virgin and the Assumption are represented in the doorway, standing at the feet of the apostles and the bedside of Mary. The tympanum is decorated with a vase of lilies on a stand-nineteenth-century design and some are three archivolts with squires and maidens wearing liturgical books and instruments, the elders with musical instruments and a host of angels crowning the Virgin. A fourth archivolt decorated with plant closes the set. "
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