Carmen Hermitage
It was built between the end of the XVI century and the beginning of the XVII century. The church was formerly dedicated to San Sebastian and currently the patron saint is the Virgen del Carmen, patron saint of the municipality.
Description of the building
The doorway has a semicircular opening between two Doric pilasters. Above these, there is a frieze with triglyphs and metopes, and a pediment with a Latin cross flanked by two typical Renaissance pyramids.
Continuing with the exterior, the scene depicts the atrium, with an iron gate that protected the entrance to the hermitage and that was demolished in 1932.
Another of the exterior modifications that can be observed is the expansion of the church’s rooms for the construction of the old convent, located to the left of the main façade, through which various religious congregations passed: Tertiaries of St. Francis, from 1882-1918; Christian Doctrine, from 1928 to 1945; Salesians, from 1945 to 1965; and Rural Dominican Sisters, from 1969 to 1995. To the right of the façade is the present priest’s house.
In the interior the neoclassical altarpiece stands out. On two lateral niches flanked by composite columns, there is a Sacred Heart of Jesus and a Heart of Mary. In the main section you can see the chapel of the Virgen del Carmen, above, on two niches, rest San Juan de la Cruz and Santa Teresa de Jesus. At about half the height of the upper body, the attic begins, in which is located a picture of the Trinity surrounded by two pilasters of compound order, fluting and topknots and finished off by a pediment.
On the sides of the presbytery hang two 18th century paintings, a miraculous Franciscan scene on the left side and the apparition of the Trinity to St. Francis on the right side.
En la nave principal, encontramos una hornacina con el Cristo atado a la columna, de Isidoro Sánchez, y un lienzo del XIX con una escena milagrosa de la reina y el leproso. Enfrente, vemos otro lienzo decimonónico con la resurrección de Lázaro y otro retablo con Nuestra Señora de la Paz en su Soledad, del siglo XVIII, y el Cristo del Múrtigas de León Ortega de 1951, donado por Juan Talero.
It was built between the end of the XVI century and the beginning of the XVII century. The church was formerly dedicated to San Sebastian and currently the patron saint is the Virgen del Carmen, patron saint of the municipality.
Description of the building
The doorway has a semicircular opening between two Doric pilasters. Above these, there is a frieze with triglyphs and metopes, and a pediment with a Latin cross flanked by two typical Renaissance pyramids.
Continuing with the exterior, the scene depicts the atrium, with an iron gate that protected the entrance to the hermitage and that was demolished in 1932.
Another of the exterior modifications that can be observed is the expansion of the church’s rooms for the construction of the old convent, located to the left of the main façade, through which various religious congregations passed: Tertiaries of St. Francis, from 1882-1918; Christian Doctrine, from 1928 to 1945; Salesians, from 1945 to 1965; and Rural Dominican Sisters, from 1969 to 1995. To the right of the façade is the present priest’s house.
In the interior the neoclassical altarpiece stands out. On two lateral niches flanked by composite columns, there is a Sacred Heart of Jesus and a Heart of Mary. In the main section you can see the chapel of the Virgen del Carmen, above, on two niches, rest San Juan de la Cruz and Santa Teresa de Jesus. At about half the height of the upper body, the attic begins, in which is located a picture of the Trinity surrounded by two pilasters of compound order, fluting and topknots and finished off by a pediment.
On the sides of the presbytery hang two 18th century paintings, a miraculous Franciscan scene on the left side and the apparition of the Trinity to St. Francis on the right side.
En la nave principal, encontramos una hornacina con el Cristo atado a la columna, de Isidoro Sánchez, y un lienzo del XIX con una escena milagrosa de la reina y el leproso. Enfrente, vemos otro lienzo decimonónico con la resurrección de Lázaro y otro retablo con Nuestra Señora de la Paz en su Soledad, del siglo XVIII, y el Cristo del Múrtigas de León Ortega de 1951, donado por Juan Talero.
