• Inglesia Santa Maria de la Asuncion

    May 28, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F

    The church of Santa María de la Asunción located in Viana ( Navarra , Spain ) is a religious building built between 1250 and 1312. 
    Of course my interest was to find the grave of Cesare Borgia the son of Pope Alexander VI and for all purposes the Machiavellian Prince

    César Borgia died during a treacherous ambush, in Viana, on March 12, 1507. 
    Initially buried in a Sepulcher inside the church in the sixteenth century his remains were dragged out and buried in the plaza before church
    later on reburied again at the top platform of the steps to the church with the inscription that you see here
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