Hermitage of Our Lady of La Fuensanta
It is stuck onto the side of the rock, and was transformed into its current state in the 18th century. It has some very special Baroque style plasterwork.
Built in the sixteenth century on an ancient Mozarabic church semirrupestre. Its nave was restored in the early eighteenth century while the current facade of the Gothic style, dating from the first decade of the twentieth century. It houses the image of the Virgen de la Fuensanta, patroness of Pizarra.
The building has an atrium, single ship excavated in the rock, divided into three sections by arches resting on plates, covering the closest to foot vaulted ceiling and two with cross vaults with rosettes, whose plaster in the first half of the eighteenth century.
It was restored in the early twentieth century, then replacing the wooden altarpiece marble by current and by providing a cover Neogothic.
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