Church of San Antonio

The Church of San Antonio is a church located in Aranjuez, in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It changed into d Bien de Interes Cultural and a World Heritage Site with the aid of UNESCO inside Aranjuez Cultural Landscape in 2003. Ferdinand VI of Spain built a chapel committed to Saint Anthony of Padua as an Oratorio to replace an in advance non-public chapel built at some point of the reign of Philip IV of Spain. It stands at the south facet of a large parade square known as 'Mariblanca' which leads into the courtyard of Royal Palace called Plaza de Parejas.

This new constructing, designed through Santiago Bonavía around 1752 would serve the human beings in addition to the Monarchy. Charles III of Spain enlarged the chapel, incorporating a large rectangular cupola with a gable roof. The church consists of a primary round shape with a grand north-going through portico front facade of five white limestone arches embellished with Tuscan pilasters. A gallery of a in addition 5 arches on either aspect of this be a part of the significant church portico with the complimentary fashion of the smaller crimson-brick arched walkways of the Casa de Infantes to the east and Casa de los Cabeleros to the west enclosing the renamed Plaza de San Antonio on 3 facets.