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Ermita de Santa Barbara

The hermitage of Santa Barbara Monovar, located on the street of the town clerk is a religious building constructed in the eighteenth century in Baroque style.Built on one of the two hills overlooking the city, seen from the distance, and draw, along with the castle and the Clock Tower, the characteristic silhouette of Monovar. It was built on a large stone base in the late eighteenth century, after demolishing the former, which was built between 1692 and 1694 by Tomas Estacio

Capuchin Church

The church's former convent of Capuchin Monovar is a style building Baroque which was built in the mid-eighteenth century.The origin of its foundation dates from 1729 when the Capuchin monks took possession of houses to found an orphanage, under the patronage of the Duke of Hijar. However, the convent building and the church began to have built 1743, finished in 1760. In 1764, constitutes a school-seminar, forming here many missionaries who evangelized the order of the Central and South America. In 1835, following the confiscation was abandoned. From this foundation, now only retains the convent church, under the patronage of Our Lady of Pilar.

Church of San Juan Bautista

The church of San Juan Bautista in the municipality of Monovar is a temple Baroque to neoclassical influences its construction begins April 19 in the year 1751, according to Pascual Madoz .It is a temple of a Latin cross. The nave is covered by a barrel vault followed hemispherical dome with lunettes which houses the windows, while the two side aisles, formed by drilling the spurs chapels house the various images are venerated. The cruise, with a dome on pendentives carved, is formed by the discontinuity of the side chapels.

Clock Tower

Built in 1743 by master Alicante Terol Thomas, stood on a mound at the end of a steep street, their bodies tilted slightly lower. It is a good example of free tower, very rare in the south of Valencia, used exclusively for civilian purposes: house the town clock and bells. It measures 18 meters in height. Is square and consists of four sections of decreasing size as rise. In the second section provides for the sundial, and above it, the mechanic. The last two bodies, pierced by arches house the bells. A simple decoration with balls appears on the last body, which ends with the characteristic blue glazed tile dome and weather vane.

Monovar Castle

It stands on one of the two hills overlooking the town of the same name, northeast of the population in the Middle Vinalop. Castle Monovar was built in time Almohad between the late twelfth century and the beginning of XIII, and was used until the early seventeenth century. It had a privileged position from which dominated the network of fortifications that lined the river Vinalopo and the communication path of the corridor Pinoso -Jumilla, natural outlet to Murcia and Andalucia .

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