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Hermitage of Sant Vicent de Les Coves de Vinromà

Les Coves de Vinromà, La Plana Alta, Castellón

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Hermitage of Sant Vicent de Les Coves de Vinromà

Monument · Les Coves de Vinromà, La Plana Alta, Castellón

The Hermitage of Sant Vicent, dedicated to San Vicente Ferrer and also to San Miguel, stands at the Pla de Sant Vicent, about 300 metres from Les Coves de Vinromà, on the way to the Mas dels Arcs, before the cemetery. Built in the early 17th century — the doorway bears the inscribed year 1614, perhaps commemorating the saint's passage through these lands — although the Gothic ribbing of the apse suggests it may already have been begun in the late 15th century. It is a single-nave building, divided into three bays by buttresses, with a main chapel, a simple ribbed vault and a chancel with a tierceron vault; the sober façade has a semicircular door and a bell-gable. Until the early 20th century it hosted an annual pilgrimage, today a day for a picnic, and local people still climb up to it during the patronal festivities.

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