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.
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.
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