The Church of La Magdalena is considered by many architectural historians to be the finest Romanesque church in Zamora — an achievement in a city that has more than twenty. What makes it special is the exceptional quality of its carved decoration: the south portal, with its intricately carved archivolts (concentric mouldings around the door arch), is one of the outstanding pieces of Romanesque stone carving in Spain.
Inside, the church is simple and relatively bare — the architecture does the work. The tomb of Doña Inés de Ulloa (12th century) is notable for its carved decoration. The church sits on Rúa de los Francos, the old pilgrim road that passes through Zamora on the Via de la Plata — the Mozarabic pilgrimage route from Seville to Santiago de Compostela.