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Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Victoria
Nuestra Señora de la Victoria Parish Church

The Nuestra Señora de la Victoria Parish Church was initially the church of the Convent of the Minim Friars of St Francis of Paola. 

Osuna-Ermita de San Arcadio
Shrine to San Arcadio

This Shrine is dedicated to the image of Osuna’s patron saint, Saint Arcadius, who is taken in procession through the city every year on 12 January. The 17th-century church was renovated in the 18th century. The single nave shrine is covered by a barrel vault and the transept with a dome on pendentives.

Hospital de la Caridad-Ruinas Antiguo Hospital de la Caridad
Hospital de la Caridad

The building has a single nave with no roof. The main chapel has a trapezoidal, eight-sided cross vault. There is a pointed triumphal arch and, on the Gospel side of the ante-chancel, a semicircular arch with a richly decorated archivolt. There is also an opening with a segmental arch.

Plaza en la que se ubica la iglesia, horizontal
Parish Church of San Bartolomé

This is a Mudejar building with three naves with modern roofs and a main chapel with ribbed vaults. In the left nave there is a doorway built over a semicircular arch.

Casariche. Fachada de la Iglesia Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación
Parish Church of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación

This is the most emblematic monument of Casariche. It was ordered to be built by the Marquises of Estepa in the 17th century. It is a building with a Latin cross floor plan formed by a single nave with chapels between the interior buttresses.

Monasterio San Miguel de la Breña
San Miguel de la Breña Monastery

The Monastery is located on a privately-owned estate, a few kilometres from the town on the road leading to Malcocinado. This is all that remains of the former Basilio Monastery. The chapel, which is used as a warehouse of the current farmhouse, consists of a single nave divided into two sections, one with a barrel vault and the other with a dome.

Vista desde el campo de la Iglesia de San Juan Bautista
San Juan Bautista Parish Church

The Mudejar-style Church, named after the town’s patron saint, also has Gothic and Renaissance art elements. It was built over an ancient mosque destroyed by an earthquake in the fourteenth century. The old presbytery has been preserved from its initial construction.