Also known like Church of Saint Cernín (Saint Saturnino of Toulouse, in French, considered the first evangelizador of Pamplona in the 3rd century), is devoted to the co-master of the city and was built the year 1297, in the same solar that occupied another romance temple of the 12th century.
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Also known like Church of Saint Cernín (Saint Saturnino of Toulouse, in French, considered the first evangelizador of Pamplona in the 3rd century), is devoted to the co-master of the city and was built the year 1297, in the same solar that occupied another romance temple of the 12th century.
The church purchases his appearance of fortress of his originaria defensive mission, in the centre of the borough that spends the same name.
The cover is of Gothic style French and possesses a cabecera semidecagonal splendid.
The church has a baroque chapel of Greek cross, devoted to the Virgin of the Path, patron saint of Pamplona,that finds in the place in which it was the claustro Gothic, that existed attached to the wall south.
His portico,offers a set of sculpture of Gothic style elaborated among finals of the 13th century and principles of the 14th century , to the that precedes an atrium of the 16th century conformed by several vaults with ogival arches, being decorated with beautiful Gothic sizes, as it is it the one of the own Santiago pilgrim.
The two towers are of mediaeval period, achieving a height of 55 m. They form part of the characteristic outline of the profile of Pamplona. In his period used with own functions of a defensive and military fortress.
The weathercock with form of rooster, the gallico of Saint Cernín, has turn one of the most popular emblems of the city.
