HERMITAGE AND CROSS

Hermitage of Santa Marta and Cross of the Fallen

- Hermitage: It is a simple but beautiful building with a nave and a presbytery.
The original church was built in the 15th century and reformed in the 16th. Since then and up its complete reform that ended in 1993, it practically kept its original aspect, with a few repairs and some additions, as the entrance porch and the bell gable.
There are several saints' images in its interior, among which stands out the former image of Santa Marta, built in polychrome plaster. Some of these images are located in the three altars of the temple: two sides with altarpieces built in masonry (that of the Holiest Christ and that of the Candles) and with sgraffitos, and the Major Altar, the most beautiful, built in polychrome wood and presided by a restored figure of St. Catalina, long ago venerated as Santa Marta. This Major Altar is located in the centre of a great arch of brick and on a few beautiful sgraffitos. The origin of all these elements is uncertain, though they might be from the middle of the 19th century.
The groin vault made of brick of the sacristy also stands out, as well as a small baroque altarpiece, the pulpit (17th century) and a granite pillar, two polychrome windows in the lateral wall coverings, two big copper lamps and other liturgical elements. As a curiosity, in the floor of the hermitage, there is a well that dates back of the 17th century that, according to the tradition, besides for the cleanliness of the temple, served to recover to the cattle from the leeches due to the coldness of its waters. Annexed, since the 16th century, where the park is today, was the old cemetery, up to the construction of the current one in the forties of the 20th century.

- Cross of the Fallen. When the Civil War ended (1936-39), and in commemoration of all the fallen in the contest, without differentiation of the sides, it was raised this simple cross built with brick, cement and whitewashed, lifted on a staggered pedestal.