 Iglesia de San Nicolás de los ServitasOld church celebrating mass in Italian
Address: Plaza de San Nicolás, 1 - Parque Enrique Tierno Galván
28013 - Plaza Mayor, Ópera & Sol
Madrid
Nearest Bus or Train:Ópera
Open Hours:8:30a-9.30a & 5:30a-8:30p M, 6:30a-8:30p Tu-Sa, 10a-1:30p & 6:30p-8:30p Su
Madrid's Italian church celebrates mass in Italian if a large enough group of native speakers requests it. The building has a perfectly preserved 12th-century mudéjar tower with lobe and horseshoe arches that was the minaret of a mosque before being turned into a bell tower. The chapels inside contain an interesting collection of paintings and sculptures by Salvatierra, Pedro de Mena and Nicolás de Busy, as well as the most impressive coffered ceilings in Madrid. Apart from the tower, the rest of the church dates from the 15th century and later.
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