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Hermitage of San Martín y Santa Bárbara de Villanueva de Viver

Villanueva de Viver, El Alto Mijares, Castellón

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Hermitage of San Martín y Santa Bárbara de Villanueva de Viver

Monument · Villanueva de Viver, El Alto Mijares, Castellón

Hermitage built in 1656 in late Gothic and Renaissance style, remodelled in the 18th century, located next to the CV-207 road one kilometre from the village of Villanueva de Viver. Listed as a Bien de Relevancia Local (a local-level heritage protection category), it is small in size, with a single nave, an attached porch and a yard on its right-hand side. It has rubble masonry with reinforcing ashlar, an atrium with three semicircular arches of which only the central one remains open, and a red-tiled gabled roof. Inside, covered by a barrel vault, a fired-clay floor dated 1859 stands out, which depicted on one tile a sundial that has since disappeared. Its state of conservation is poor; the clavarios (lay custodians) of the saint are responsible for its upkeep.

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