Logbook · 3 places

Church of los Santos Juanes de Catral

Catral, El Baix Segura, Alicante

1 Villages · 2 Monuments

Spain › Valencian Community › Alicante › El Baix Segura › Catral › Church of los Santos Juanes de Catral

Church of los Santos Juanes de Catral

Monument · Catral, El Baix Segura, Alicante

Church of los Santos Juanes de Catral (Alicante), dedicated to San Juan Bautista, patron saint of the town. It stands where, in Muslim times, there was a mosque, destroyed in 1299 by royal order after the Reconquest so that a Christian temple in Mediterranean Gothic style could be built in its place, with a single nave with diaphragm arches and timber roof frame. The present temple, from the 18th century, was demolished again in 1760 and rebuilt until 1802 in a plain Baroque style with Neoclassical influences, with a Latin-cross plan, apsidal chancel and side chapels; it stands out for an oval dome over the crossing, unique in the whole comarca.

Photo: 19Tarrestnom65 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

What to see and do in Catral