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Marchena-Iglesia San Sebastián
San Sebastian Church

Marchena’s San Sebastián Church was built outside the walled compound. It was initially intended as a Shrine to Saint Sebastian, the town’s patron saint.

Marchena-Iglesia de San Pedro Mártir o de Santo Domingo
San Pedro Mártir Church or Santo Domingo Church

The Church is actually dedicated to St Peter Martyr. However, since it has traditionally belonged to the Dominican Order, it is commonly known as Santo Domingo. It was part of the Convent founded in 1517 by Rodrigo Ponce de León, Lord of Marchena and Duke of Arcos. The two side chapels were lost, and only the large central nave still exists. 

Marchena-Iglesia y Convento de San Agustín
San Agustín Church and Convent 

It was built in the mid-17th century in the style of the transition period from Baroque to Neoclassical, with influences from Juan de Herrera and Latin American art. It is a very unique style that is unlike most of the churches in this area, due to both its massive size and unique aesthetics and finishing elements. 

Iglesia de Santa Clara
Santa Clara Church 

The present-day Santa Clara Church is what remains of the disappeared namesake temple; a monastery founded in 1498 by the sisters Juana and Elvira González de Lucenilla y de Benjumea and run by the Poor Clare sisters.

Iglesia y Convento de San Andrés (Las Mercedarias)
San Andrés Church and Convent of (Mercedarians)

The original Mudejar portal of the Church from the early 16th century remains. The brick building has a Latin cross plan with a single nave covered by a half-barrel vault and lunettes. The temple was founded in 1537 by Gonzalo Jiménez Benjumea as the seat of several chaplaincies.

Casa Fábrica
Casa Fábrica

This building was commissioned to the Sevillian master-builder Ambrosio de Figueroa in the 18th century by the San Juan Bautista Church. According to the books, it was used to store and restore the Church’s furnishings. It was also used as a granary. The building belonged to the parish, as evidence by the Cross of St John on the main gate.

Albaida del Aljarafe. Acceso al Oratorio de la Hermandad de la Soledad
Oratory of the Confraternity of the Solitude

There is documentary proof that, in the 17th and 18th centuries, the present-day Oratory of the Confraternity of the Solitude was the “El Calvario” where the “Cruz de las Toallas” (penitential cross) was placed. Before the penitential procession in Holy Week, the Descent from the Cross was re-enacted using an articulated image of Christ. This event took place until the mid-20th century.