San Miguel de los Navarros
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San Miguel de los Navarros is a church in Zaragoza
Zaragoza
Zaragoza , also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

. It has a single nave with side chapels, a polygonal apse and a bell tower, located at the northern side.

The church and its bell tower are notable examples of Mudéjar
Mudéjar
Mudéjar is the name given to individual Moors or Muslims of Al-Andalus who remained in Iberia after the Christian Reconquista but were not converted to Christianity...

 architecture. The bell tower has three floors with decorated brickwork, and is surmounted by a 18th century spire
Spire
A spire is a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, particularly a church tower. Etymologically, the word is derived from the Old English word spir, meaning a sprout, shoot, or stalk of grass....

, similar to that of the Torre de la Seo.

The brickwork façade and the choir date to the Baroque period. The Renaissance artist Damian Forment
Damián Forment
Damià Forment was a Spanish architect and sculptor, considered the most important Spanish sculptor of the 16th century.Forment studied in Rome and Florence before returning to his native town of Valencia...

executed the polychrome wood sculpture at the high altar.
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