Christ Chapel

The hermitage of San Juan or Santo Cristo de los Remedios is a beautiful building with a centralized structure located in the center of the historic center of Briones. It was built between 1737 and 1748 over the old hermitage of San Juan. On the façade there is a niche with the image of San Juan, the patron saint of the primitive temple. The hermitage that we can see today was built by the master builder Juan Bautista Arbaizar, assisted by his son-in-law Ignacio de Elejalde. It is remarkable for its octagonal plan inscribed in a rectangle and its large central dome. In its interior are preserved altarpieces, paintings and carvings of the time. Inside it houses an exhibition of liturgical costumes, the oldest dating from 1570. The three altarpieces of the chancel are of rococo style of the XVIII century, it has images of virgins and saints. The Christ of the Remedies is in this Hermitage from the Cross of September until the Cross of May, the rest of the year the hollow is empty because the Christ is in the Parish of the town. The small side altarpieces are neo-classical and contain Santo Domingo de La Calzada and La Virgen de Guadalupe from Mexico. Inside there is an interesting museum of liturgical ornaments among which stand out the green and red tomes with almost half a millennium old and a collection of relics or reliquaries of different styles. It also highlights a canvas of the Descent from the Italian school of the seventeenth century.