Carmona Canta por Navidad

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El día 6 de diciembre, la música llenará las calles de Carmona. Actuaciones en varios puntos de la ciudad.

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Tue, 06 de Dec de 2022

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Tue, 06 de Dec de 2022

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Carmona

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37.00 Km

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Molinos Árabes de la Aceña

Commonly known as the “Aceña Mills”, these Moorish water mills are mentioned in 18th-century documents as the Saldaña water and fulling mills. They were originally built in Moorish times on the River Guadalquivir between Cordoba and Seville. The current buildings were erected in 1485-1499 on what was likely the site of an 11th-century structure. The Mudejar builders who worked on its construction left their architectural imprint, as they also did on other buildings in the town, such as San Juan Bautista Church. The mills are located near Alcolea del Río. It consists of three different buildings that straddle a branch of the River Guadalquivir. The first building cannot be accessed nowadays as the entrance opens directly onto the river. It was built from large stone blocks with a structure similar to the inverted keel of a ship. It is flanked by two massive buttresses. The pentagonal building in the middle is covered by a barrel vault. It is divided into three irregular bays separated by stone and brick pilasters. Its north side is slightly offset. There are two millstones in the centre of the building. The third structure, which is also pentagonal, has a star vault formed by the wide stone ribs. The floor of this module staggers downwards to the river. It houses several millstones. The southern side of the complex is bordered by a dyke, built with ashlar and river rocks, that projects into the river.

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Bethlehem Arch

This unique altar, built on a canvas from the old city, is one of the city's most historically interesting and charming spots. It consists of a glazed balcony containing a Marian altarpiece and an altar with an impeccable white cloth decorated with numerous vases of flowers. The chapel seems to have been dug out of the ancient walls of the City of Ecija and is a traditional site of great devotion among the city's inhabitants. It signalled the way to Estepa. Traditionally, this was the end point of an ancient novena, which is still celebrated for nine days by the faithful who are looking for a solution to their problems. Not long ago, in an archaeological excavation at the Bethlehem Arch, located in the very heart of Ecija's old town, traces of a settlement dating back to the 6th or 7th century B.C. were found.

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Basílica del Gran Poder

The current Basilica Menor de Jesús del Gran Poder was built as a place to welcome and accommodate the great devotion that the people of Seville had professed for centuries to the blessed image of the Lord. The building, designed by Alberto Balbontín de Orta and Antonio Delgado Roig, is a temple of a historicist nature, built with contemporary materials and a classical style. It is accessed through a doorway that mixes Renaissance and Baroque elements repeating the same ascending structure: that of the door itself, to house the coat of arms on a split pediment; a second for the signpost of the date of consecration and a third for the belfry, of similar structure in descending size, with three bells and a wrought-iron cross. The rest of the façade of the Basilica is integrated into the square with the construction of the auxiliary facilities of the Brotherhood and the Parish itself. The interior is a circular floor plan preceded by a narthex or porticoed atrium with large balconies on the sides. The nave is simple and only consists of a high base in red and black marble (Gascó, 1965) and the white grooved wall, decorated with the fourteen Stations of the Cross in canvases (Antonio Agudo Torrico, 1996). The roof of the basilica has a semi-spherical vault decorated with coffers and a central cupola. In the front area, there is a presbytery that houses an niched altarpiece (Guzmán Bejarano, 1965) copied from the altarpieces of the Chapel of San Lorenzo (19th century). It houses the images of the Lord plus the Blessed Virgin and St. John in the side areas.

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