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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.

Capilla de la Vera Cruz
Chapel of the Vera Cruz

The Chapel of the True Cross dates back to the late 15th century or early 16th century. This Gothic-Mudejar-style temple has a small chapel with one nave and two aisles. The altarpiece is from 1759. 

Above the magnificent pulpit with a wrought-iron staircase is a frieze with Renaissance motifs from the second half of the 16th century.

Marchena-Capilla de la Milagrosa
Chapel of the Milagrosa

It was initially built in the 16th century as a Shrine to Our Lady of Grace. It was home to the Augustinian Order until they moved to the current Convent of San Agustín circa 1616. From 1670 to 1780, it was an all-girls school run by the Beatas Educandas de Santa Isabel.

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.

Ermita Veracruz Albaida
Shrine to Vera Cruz

Originally, this shrine was part of the 16th-century San Sebastian Hospital. Only the pointed-arch doorway leading to the courtyard remains from the original 17th-century shrine. The building was renovated in 1896, but owing to its poor state of repair, it was torn down and rebuilt in 1903.

Paradas. Fachada del Ayuntamiento vista desde la Plaza San Juan de Letrán
Town Hall and Shrine to San Juan Letrán

Both buildings share spaces and relevant architectural details. 

 

Town Hall.

The building is the work of the famous Sevillian architect Aníbal González. The graceful dome from the Shrine to San Juan de Letrán, demolished in 1942, is integrated into the structure. Some records show that the Shrine already existed in 1527.

 

Fuentes de Andalucía-Castillo de la Monclova
Monclova Castle

The 14th-century Monclova Castle was built over the city of Obulcula. It has belonged to the House of the Dukes of the Infantado since 1837. It is the last remaining embodiment of a secular town centre as defined in the prehistoric, Turdetan and Roman periods, which was not so much a town as a rural hamlet, particularly during the Muslim domination.