Cascadas del Hueznar

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 This Mudejar-style Parish Church was renovated in the late 18th century and the mid-20th century. It is located in the centre of the town, very close to the castle.

The Church owes its name to the town’s patron saint, Saint Martha. 

The chapel was built in the mid-16th century (1557) by local master-builders. 

This is a baroque style church built in two stages: in the 17th century, the sanctuary and the transept, and in the 18th century the three naves. It has an altarpiece with 18th century canvases and images, including the images of Jesus the Nazarene, Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza, Nuestra Señora de la Mediación, the Reclining Christ and María Santísima de los Dolores Coronada.

This remarkable 15th-century Mudejar temple has a rectangular plan and a polygonal apse. The three naves each divided into three sections have pointed arches supported by granite and marble Roman columns with richly decorated capitals and bases. The central nave is covered with a Mudejar coffered ceiling with three panels and joists, and the side naves with hanging ceilings. 

This late 18th-century church is dedicated to Our Lady of Immaculate Conception. It also ecclesiastically depends on the parish of Our Lady of Pure Conception. In 1887, it was also used as a water deposit. Until the Spanish Civil War, it was used as public baths. It then served as a water supply station for irrigation purposes.

In the early 18th century, the Hermandad del Rosario, which was originally established in the parish church of Santa María, went into decline, which it overcame thanks to the efforts of the Venerable Simón el Ermitaño, who died in 1711 and was responsible for the construction of this chapel, dedicated to San Vicente Ferrer.

On the site now occupied by the parish church, the former Muslim fortress of the Almohad period was built, the only remaining feature of which is a small piece of wall, located next to the sanctuary of the church, which has a pointed horseshoe arch framed by an alfiz.