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Hermitage of la Virgen del Llosar

Vilafranca, Els Ports, Castellón

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Hermitage of la Virgen del Llosar

Monument · Vilafranca, Els Ports, Castellón

The hermitage of the Virgen del Llosar stands 1.5 km from Vilafranca, on the road towards Iglesuela del Cid, where tradition places the discovery of an image of the Virgin by a peasant who was ploughing the land. The present sanctuary was built over a small fourteenth-century hermitage, rebuilt between 1663 and 1683, by then in the seventeenth century, by Juan Ibáñez and his disciples; the hospedería (guesthouse) was finished in 1734, the camarín (shrine chamber) was begun in 1758, and the semi-porticoed square in front of the façade was added between 1845 and 1848, well into the nineteenth century. The complex, with a cloister-like plan of three naves and eight side chapels, houses in its camarín a Baroque altarpiece of curving lines. Two pilgrimages are held: a penitential one on the octave of Pentecost, and another, with a procession and a solemn Mass, on 8 September, at which the mayorales hand out milk and pastries.

Photo: Angela Llop (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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