Santa María Magdalena, Zaragoza

Santa María Magdalena is a church in Zaragoza, Spain, built in the 14th century in Mudéjar style.

It is mentioned for the first time in 1126 as a Romanesque building, which was replaced two centuries later by the current structure.

The church is on the Latin cross plan, featuring a single nave with cross-vaults with a polygonal apse, and side chapels between the external buttresses.

The lower apse has, externally, arches in mixed styles, perhaps inspired to style of the Aljafería Palace, above which are twenty decorative ogival arches and crosses forming quadrangular motifs.

The high altar, executed by José Ramirez de Arellano (who also made the sculptures in the Holy Chapel of the Pillar) dates to the 18th century Baroque renovation.

Bell tower.
Apse view.