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Virgin of Loreto’s Hermitage

Carrer de la Mare de Déu del Loreto, 46D

Virgin of Loreto’s Hermitage is a religious building situated at confluence of Loreto’s square and Calvary street in Atzeneta del Maestrat.

Virgin of Loreto’s Hermitage dates from the XVIIth century, specifically from the year 1602, although in its outer part you can see two wooden doors framed in carved ashlars, which can be dated earlier, one of them from 1596. It is an hermitage located within the town of Atzeneta del Maestrat, and in front of it you can see what is known as “Peiró de Loreto”, a slender stone column located on a tier of three steps with circular socles, in which usually some image of Christ or Our Lady is placed, sometimes even and all of saints or simply of the Holy Cross, as must have been the case with the pewter of Loreto, but the Cross was lost during the civil war 1936-1939.

The hermitage is a small two-story temple with a single gabled Arabic tile roof. Its construction is made of masonry, and has a portico formed by semicircular arches on three of its faces, although currently only the central can be used to have closed the sides to build a running seat in its inner part. To this portico or atrium a window with grates opens the facade of the hermitage, whereas the doors of access to the sacred enclosure are placed laterally in each one of the facings, being these doors small and framed by ashlars. belfry located on the central wall, on a trestle of the right roof at the confluence of the temple and the portico, which has a single bell, called “Loreto” and dated 1961. Regarding its interior, stands out for to be totally painted in white, being able to observe a vault of cruise, with key decorated in the form of stone cherub and a battery of holy water of alabaster.

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