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Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman

The Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman is a religious building that is located in the town of Lepe, Huelva ( Spain ) and which exact date is unknown. Believed to have been founded in the early sixteenth century, probably on an earlier building.

Chapel of St. Christopher

The chapel of San Cristobal located in the municipality of Lepe(Huelva Province, Spain) is located on a crossroads between Ayamonte and Seville., This chapel should rise from the fifteenth century - inside we have found some coins in times of Ferdinand and Isabella, as one of the prayer forced passers by Lepe.This chapel is currently being refurbished to meet the interesting role as a meeting point of culture exhibition and conference room, and arguably as a symbolic place to make known to our guests.

Catalan Tower

The Tower of Catalan, a Cultural, is a beacon tower located near the town of Lepe and within the municipality.It is located on one of the ancient hillocks bordering the coastline, halfway between the beach of La Antilla and the port of El Terron.From here you can admire a spectacular view of the Marshes Natural Park of Río Piedras and Flecha del Rompido and learn the history and landscape elements in the interpretation of coastal point installed at the base.

Museum of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of the Beautiful "

In 2005 opened the first museum in the town, of religious and located in the Guild House of the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Beauty. Among the exhibits highlights the Carreta-shrine of the Virgin, in addition to the processional way of the Blessed Virgin, the litter of our Patron Saint San Roque and the former base of the processional way.The walls display various sobremanto shawl that has the Virgin and has been wearing wearing h over the course of history. In the windows are liturgical and processional appliances such as front of the altar of worship, candles set in the late nineteenth century, a set of tray and silver cruets s. XVIII, the current use candlesticks on the altar of religious and processional candlesticks. It occupies a privileged place of departure the mantle of Our Lady of Beauty, made in burgundy velvet richly embroidered in gold.

Ermita de la Bella

It is a small chapel dating from S. XX, used to hold the image of Our Lady of the Beautiful the days of the Pilgrimage to be held in his honor. It is a Latin cross building with a bell attached and has an access stairway. From this we can see the Campus Chapel Romero as a whole, and the Marshes Natural Park of Río Piedras and Flecha del Rompido on the horizon.

Monument to the Discoveries of America (1992)

Nestled in the Park V Centenary of Lepe (Huelva). Abreu is its author. The group consists of five-expressionist figurative sculptures carved in stone, measuring about two meters in height, erect, and a meter, the sitting. The main figure represents Rodrigo Acevedo Perez, a sailor who was born in Lepe is and who accompanied Columbus on his voyage of 1492. 13 is represented on the high crow's nest of the Santa Maria, when he shouted "Land ho" on 12 October, to see fire on a Caribbean island. The other characters represent three sailors performing different tasks and a woman pulling the bag. The sculptures have been carved in the language of expressive figuration, mixed with geometric constructivism, and it would be rather a construction expression. With this language, expressive Abreu mixes with the geometric principles with a social and political purpose: with its rough figures, but adapted to the geometry, the author try to project an image of reality which is composed of opposing principles.

Agriculture Monument (2001)

Located next to Park Station and is the work of artists Jose Manuel Martínez leperos and Francisco Sanchez. Represents a couple of farmers growing the field.

Alvaro Alonso Barba Monument

Located in the Coronation Park is dedicated to the famous Alvaro Alonso Barba lepero metal. It was designed by the architect Lepera Rosa Maria Garcia and plays a smelting furnace as described in his book The Art of Metals.

Monumento a Nuestra Senora de la Bella and old Lepe.

Located in Huerta del Pozo, sculptor Jose Manuel Martinez, the sculpture depicts two opposing attitudes elderly, being the old serene and happy old man holding a child, offering a dove to the Virgen de la Bella.
 

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