Spanish Wooden Church Doors

Ruta Bancos Gigantes or Huge Bench Route in Andalucia

A new rage is slowly spreading across Andalucia with its beginnings in the province of Malaga and that is huge benches are being installed in beauty spots across the region. The Huge Bench Route or Ruta Bancos Gigantes #rutabancosgigantes can be found on Instagram where they are more active with updates on the new installations of these enormous benches and they have a Facebook page too. Map of the Ruta Bancos Gigantes The initiative started by Forest Green an agrobroker company that supplies and works with treated wood to large construction and environmental companies in Spain. The huge bench route is steadily growing, with constant new installations spreading across Andalucia. The enormous handmade wooden benches are 4 metre long and 2.3 metre high, with the seat being 1.3 metres above ground and needing steps to get onto them, appearing in natural beauty spots hopes to encourage people out into and enjoy the views and of course take photos to be ...

I love wooden doors, you've probably read that before on my blog. This is a new post just for church doors, which I'll keep adding to. Why not pop over and see my other Old Wooden Doors post. So many, ancient, interesting and beautiful doors as well as intricate stone surrounds.

Nuestra Senora de los Remedios, Plaza San Francisco, Estepona

Side Door Iglesia de la Magdalena, Guadix

Front Door Iglesia de la Magdalena, Guadix

This church is on the Ruta del Mudéjar and in the oldest quarter of Guadix which was first Christian then Mozarabic and later Islamic. This church built in the mid-16th century, was later enlarged but is still the most modest of Guadix´s Mudejar churches.