Semana Santa Estepa

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The cityscape is dominated by the Church and its 18th-century bell tower, destroyed during the Spanish Civil War. The Church is the seat of the town’s patron saint, Nuestra Señora de la Fuente Clara and the Easter confraternities.

In the pedestrian high street of the town, Mesones Street, stands this Chapel of the old Charity Hospital, now a nursing home run by the Mercedarian Sisters. 

The Shrine to Our Lady of Solitude is located in the north edge of the town towards El Pedroso. There used to be on this same place another Shrine to San Sebastian, where Our Lady of Solitude was venerated as early as the sixteenth century., The compound was ultimately given her name owing to the great devotion of the people.

The most important monument in Lorena is the parish church of San Miguel. It is a building with one nave, roofed with a ribbed barrel vault, to the left-hand side of which another one was added a few years ago. The current construction does not date back beyond the late 18th century, although later renovations can be identified. 

The building is listed as an Asset of Cultural Interest. The style is baroque in transition to neoclassicism. It was built on an earlier Mudejar-style church that was demolished due to the damage caused by the Lisbon earthquake (1755). Its construction began in 1780 and ended in 1801. 

The 16th-century San Ildefonso Church is the seat of the Confraternity of the Transfixion and Our Lady of Solitude.

The building has an entrance at the west front and another on the Epistle aisle, both with semi-circular arches between pilasters. The main entrance is crowned by a pediment with pinnacles crowned by an oculus.

The church was built around 1620 by order of the Marquises of Estepa. It is of Romanesque origin, with 18th century renovations and additions. The church originally had a Latin cross floor plan, to which the side chapels and the right nave were later added. Inside, it houses 18th century chapels and altarpieces.