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On the way to Zamarramala we can find the church of Vera Cruz, founded by the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in 1208, although the legend attributes its establishment to the Order of the Temple.
The building, with a twelve-sided floor-plan distributed around a central room, has three apses. It is inspired in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and its nave is very sober and thrilling, wrapped in a mysterious veil. The two floors are decorated with groin vaults, Muslim style, and still show remains of wall paintings. The church guarded in the past a relic of the True Cross (known as lignum crucis), and belongs presently to the Order of Malta.
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