The church of Vera Cruz, formerly known as the Holy Sepulcher, is a Catholic temple located in the San Marcos neighborhood of the city of Segovia.
It is located to the north of the city, very close to the convent of San Juan de la Cruz, on the slope that goes up to Zamarramala, a town that was, for centuries, a parish church.
It consists of a nave with a dodecagonal plan that surrounds a small central pavilion (aedicule) with two floors, to which the apses and the tower were added. It is one of the best preserved Romanesque temples in Europe.
The construction of this temple has traditionally been attributed to the Templars, but currently it is believed that it was the Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem that carried out its construction and that it depended, as a commission, on the collegiate church of Toro (Zamora).
In 1216 Pope Honorius III granted a piece of the cross of Christ, the lignum crucis, to the temple as a relic. This relic was taken in 1692 to the new parish church of Zamarramala where it is still preserved.
An apse that is currently used as a sacristy was added to the original building, later the tower was added, which at first was separated from the temple, and later the three apses that make up the head of the current church.
In 1692, when the parish church was built in the town, it ceased to be the parish of Zamarramala and came under the ownership of the Virgen de la Paz, whose image, in Romanesque style and made of stone, presides over one of the apses.