CHURCH ASSUMPTION OF OUR LADY
Culture
SCHEDULE
Visits:
Tuesday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Mass schedule:
-From Tuesday to Saturdays and the eve of the holy day of obligation: 7:30 pm (November to March), 8:00 pm (April to October).
-Sundays and holy days of obligation: 9 am (Saint Joseph), 10 am (Ecce-Homo) and 12 pm (Assumption).
July and August: Mass at 10 am (Tuesday to Friday) and 8 pm (Saturdays and vespers).
DESCRIPTION
It is located within the walled area of the town, probably on an old Arab mosque. It began to be built by Joan Cambra (of French origin) at the end of the s. XVI (1599), and Pere Joan Mir would finish the work around 1614, but the great earthquake that struck the area in 1644 caused great damage to the work, and everything that was already built had to be rebuilt. The construction was definitively completed in the 18th century, when the bell tower and the Communion Chapel were completed.
We could consider it eclectic in style, with a mixture of historicism, neoclassicism and neo-Gothicism.
It has a basilica plan with three naves: a rectangular central one and two lateral ones with five interconnected chapels. One of the side chapels is an access door to the temple called Puerta de Mediodía that overlooks the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
Inside it keeps the Altarpiece of the Virgin of Hope (15th century), the double Veronica (14th century) and the Christ of Providence (15th century).
