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Font, Parroquia de la Asuncion de Nuestra Senora, Bocairent, Valencia, Spain

Baptismal font, made 15th century in Gothic style, by Pere Comte and Pere Balaguer, originally made as a public fountain and moved to the church in the 18th century, in the Parroquia de la Asuncion de Nuestra Senora, or Bocairent Cathedral, in Bocairent, a medieval village in the Sierra de Mariola mountains in Vall d'Albaida, Valencia, Spain. These stone masons also built the Miguelete tower and the Lonja de la Seda in Valencia. The church was originally built in Gothic style in 1516 on the old Moorish castle, but was later adapted in a baroque style. Picture by Manuel Cohen.

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Baptismal font, made 15th century in Gothic style, by Pere Comte and Pere Balaguer, originally made as a public fountain and moved to the church in the 18th century, in the Parroquia de la Asuncion de Nuestra Senora, or Bocairent Cathedral, in Bocairent, a medieval village in the Sierra de Mariola mountains in Vall d'Albaida, Valencia, Spain. These stone masons also built the Miguelete tower and the Lonja de la Seda in Valencia. The church was originally built in Gothic style in 1516 on the old Moorish castle, but was later adapted in a baroque style. Picture by Manuel Cohen.