Semana Santa Estepa

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The chapel is the work of Evaristo Román. It was in the early twentieth century in the popular neighbourhood of La Almazara, over an old oil mill, next to the local municipal theatre.

It has a modern religious architecture and houses the images of the Confraternity of La Borriquita, which marches in procession on Palm Sunday:

This shrine was built in the late 15th century. It is a Mudejar-style building, with a single nave and a sail vault over the chancel. The Catholic Monarchs ordered it constructions and granted particular graces under the Royal Decree of Graces signed in 1486 in Salamance.

This shrine is located in the area on the outskirts known as “El Algarrobo”. The traditional pilgrimage in honour of Our Lady of the Rosary, to whom the shrine is dedicated, is held here. The event dates back to 1613 when it was called the Rose Festival.

The chapel is the headquarters of the Cofradía de los Negros.

The current La Merced Church was built in 1650, although it was extensively renovated in the second half of the 18th century. The friars arrived in Osuna in 1609. They initially settled in the Shrine to Santa Ana, on the outskirts of the city. After two failed attempts, they built a new monastery on its current site in 1637.

In 1513, the 4th Count of Ureña gifted the old San Sebastián Chapel and the adjoining charity hospital to the friars of the Order of Preachers so that they could found their convent. The Count had it recorded that the Chapel should not be demolished but rather incorporated into the new church. Its construction was completed on 7 March 1547.

The Shrine to Santa Ana is located on the outskirts of Osuna. It was initially a convent founded in the first half of the 16th century by Maria de la Cueva, the wife of the 4th Count of Ureña, and run by the Poor Clare sisters. The nuns moved to their monastery on La Huerta Street in 1599 given that the Shrine was in an uninhabited place.