Churches and Hermitages

The Parroquial Church San Ramón Nonato is an excellent work of great neoclassic purity and remarkable balance of volumes that stands out among the traditional village of the rest of the town. It was built in the second half of the seventeenth century, the architect Antonio Munar working on its construction, although the name of the architect who designed it is unknown.

Neoclassical construction of the 19th century, with a rectangular floor plan and a single nave. It has a very sober exterior and an interior that stands out for its simplicity and beauty. Located next to the square that bears his name, its ornamentation is articulated by means of a succession of pilasters of Ionic order united by blind arches of half a point and supporting entablatures, on which the barrel vault is flung with lunettes finished in oculi. After the main arch opens the main chapel, where is the image of the patron, the "Virgen de los Remedios", which is…

Located on the top of Mount Roel in the Sierra de las Estancias and built in the 18th century, it is the most important architectural jewel with which Albox counts, also declared a historical-artistic monument.

The Church of Santa María is one of the most famous artistic treasures of the municipality of Urrácal. It has an irregular floor plan with a central nave and two lateral ones with six chapels dedicated to San José, image of the school of Salzillo, Las Ánimas, La Virgen del Rosario, San Antonio - Our Lady of Fátima - Santa Teersa, Our Lady of Sorrows and Our Father Jesus.

The Basilica of Our Lady of the Mercedes de Oria adopts a similar solution to the Velezan temple, although with smaller size and more simplified decoration. The Basilica of Our Lady of the Mercedes is a rather late example of the Baroque, since it takes place in the second half of the 18th century. This church is located in the center of a large urban space that surrounds it and that constitutes a kind of atrium in which the cover of the feet acts as a point of attraction for the facade. On this cover contrasts the decoration of small…

The history of this Church is recent. Initially there was a small hermitage. This mini temple did not have the capacity to accommodate the population, and due to the unanimous desire of the people of Chercos, the construction of a larger and more comfortable Church for all its faithful was carried out. The Church of San Lorenzo is a modern building, rectangular in shape, with three facades and a dividing wall; two doors on the south and east façades; three windows on the north façade and two on the south façade; seven portholes; the exposed wooden roof ends with a…

It is said that it was in Oria, Almería, where the first parochial temple of the zone was built, corresponding this one to the Hermitage of San Gregorio Ostiense, after the recovery of the Almanzora by Don Juan de Austria.

Church from the middle of the 18th century, having its own archive and books from 1769, functioning since that date as a subsidiary church of Vélez Rubio, being served, depending on the periods, by one or two priests, who acted as curates of the church of Vélez Rubio, but it would not be until June 1, 1900 when it became its own parish. The territorial scope that the bishopric of Almería assigned to it when the parish of Taberno was established did not coincide exactly with the municipal term, serve as an example that of the district of Santopetar that…

The San Antonio de Padua Parish Church is a recently built building that replaces the old church that had to be demolished by the 1973 earthquake.

The Church of San Sebastian is a unique nave structure covered by a barrel vault, and the roof with pine beams of the country and Arab tile.

The construction of the Santa María Parish Church began at the beginning of the 16th century (1505), but over time it underwent several restorations, the last one being carried out in the 19th century.