The best of Atienza’s three museums is inside the Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad. Its soaring altarpiece and golden rococo-style side chapel are befitting of a church 10 times the size. Upstairs you’ll see a rather eerie 16th-century catafalque (coffin platform) painted with skeletons.
Museo de la Santísima Trinidad
Castilla-La Mancha
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