What to Visit

The Charcón del Buey The Laroya River is a special and charismatic river that is part of the tributaries of the Almanzora River. Crossing the town to which it owes its name, it constitutes the main reason why Laroya has a special character, an…

In the Alto Valle del Almanzora (Almeria) there were important castles or hussün in Tíjola (9th-10th centuries) and a little later in Purchena. In the mountain valleys the fortified settlements are smaller but according to the same scheme (Bacares,…

Nice church that has its origin in the 19th century. During the terrible cholera of 1864, the residents of the Llano de los Olleres neighborhood made a promise to the Virgen del Carmen to build a sanctuary if the epidemic ceased. As it happened,…

The Church of the Assumption is of recent creation, dates from the year 1.968. The project was carried out by the Catalan architect Don Ramón Montserrat Ballesté. The Church of the Assumption has a capacity of between 2,000 and 3,000 people. It…

Church built with devotion to the Virgin of Carmen, if this church stands out for something, it is for the singularity of its procession, since it does not have a route or an approximate duration, because it is a procession to bid (auction). It is a…

The Church of San Ginés, is located in the street Church s/n. It was erected in the place where the old Muslim mosque was and came to replace another consecrated one from 1505, to Our Lady of the Incarnation, which probably could have been located…

The history of this Church is recent. Initially there was a small hermitage. This mini-temple had no shelter capacity for the population, and before the unanimous desire of the people of Chercos the construction of a larger and more comfortable…

Church of San Roque, dated in the second half of the sixteenth century, consists of a large central nave of high walls divided into two spaces by a series of columns that define a lower side aisle that communicates the entrance door of the church…

The Church of San Sebastián is neoclassical in style and was built between 1780 and 1789 by Ventura Rodríguez. It has a Greek cross plan; the central space is occupied by a vaulted dome. On the main altar of the Church of San Sebastián there is an…

The Church of Santa María was built in the sixteenth century. Its owner is Santa María and with devotion to the Virgin of Carmen, who had hermitage and brotherhood since the sixteenth century. It is located on the main street of Lúcar, called Calle…