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Church of El Carmen

Declared as a National Historic and Artistic Monument, nowadays only the church is left. There are some magnificent altarpieces on the inside. Built between 1583 and 1663, this church, that belomged to the Orden de los Carmelitas...

Antequera

Monumentos y arte > Hermitage and Chapel

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Church of Our Lady of Loreto

Built between 1693 and 1699, this church, founded by the Compañîa de Jesús, has the most monumental facade of all the ones found amongst all the Baroque architecture in all of Antequera. It is totally built out of cut stone blocks....

Antequera

Monumentos y arte > Hermitage and Chapel

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Church of Santa María de Jesús

This is a temple from the 17th century, which is the end product of a series of reforms. A large part of it was destroyed during the French invasion, and the only parts that survivied in tact were the and the Capilla del Socorro. Once the...

Antequera

Monumentos y arte > Hermitage and Chapel

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Church of Santiago

The Iglesia de Santiago, built as a chapel in 1519, was gradually rebuilt during the first half of the 18th century. The exterior, which dates back to 1745 and is the work of the master architect Cristóbal Garcîa, is particularly...

Antequera

Monumentos y arte > Hermitage and Chapel

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Cortijo de Las Mezquitas

The original compound comprised the mosque, its courtyard and a thick wall encircling the perimeter. It was converted into a cortijo (Spanish for “farmhouse”) in 1552. In the absence of systematic archaeological studies, recent approaches...

Antequera

Otros lugares culturales > Ethnography > Farmhouse and Winepress

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