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Hermitage of la Sangre de Castalla

Castalla, L'Alcoià, Alicante

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Hermitage of la Sangre de Castalla

Monument · Castalla, L'Alcoià, Alicante

The hermitage of the Sangre de Castalla is a building in early Valencian Gothic style, called “of the reconquest” because its consecrations were carried out by King James I of Aragon himself, which places its origin around the second half of the 13th century. It was the church of Castalla from the 13th to the 16th century, when the building of the present parish church turned it into a hermitage, seat of the Cofradía de la Sangre and repository of the image of the Virgen de la Soledad, patroness of the town. It has a single central nave formed by huge pointed arches, formeret arches and side chapels between buttresses, with a coffered ceiling; in 1436 it was extended by two bays owing to population growth, and in the 18th century a Rococo camarín was added to house the image of the Virgin.

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