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Fair of la Virgen de los Remedios

Fuensanta, La Mancha del Júcar-Centro, Albacete

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Fair of la Virgen de los Remedios

Activity · Fuensanta, La Mancha del Júcar-Centro, Albacete

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Fair and main festivities of Fuensanta in honour of its patroness, the Virgen de los Remedios, venerated in the Trinitarian sanctuary and celebrated every 8 September. The sanctuary has its origin in a supposed Marian apparition of 1482, when a spring is said to have burst forth on the spot; the Trinitarians bought the hermitage around 1561 and built a monastery on it. The church, rectangular in plan and Baroque in style, is covered with lunette vaults and a dome with polychrome plaster reliefs of Trinitarian saints; in the old conventual orchard a chapel marking the site of the apparition is preserved. The municipality also celebrates, on 9 May, its patron san Gregorio Nacianceno, with a pilgrimage to La Roda and a cultural week from 9 to 15 August.

8 de septiembre

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