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Church of San Miguel Arcángel de Alcudia de Veo

Alcudia de Veo, La Plana Baixa, Castellón

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Church of San Miguel Arcángel de Alcudia de Veo

Monument · Alcudia de Veo, La Plana Baixa, Castellón

Church of San Miguel Arcángel de Alcudia de Veo

The church of San Miguel Arcángel, in Alcudia de Veo (Castellón), right in the heart of the Sierra de Espadán, is the parish church of the municipality, on which the churches of Veo and Benitandús depend as annexes, within the diocese of Segorbe-Castellón. Its construction began in the 17th century, after the expulsion of the Moriscos from the Kingdom of Valencia, when the new Christian settlers reformed the village's former mosque — already consecrated as a church by the mid-16th century — and turned it into an abbey house, raising a new parish temple. The works were finished before 1748, already in the 18th century, the year in which an earthquake destroyed the village except for the bell tower, which fell in a second tremor on 2 April. In August 1936, images, retables, and ornaments of the temple were burned.

Photo: Juan Emilio Prades Bel (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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