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Candelario City Council

In 1894-95 was built this magnificent building that will be the Town Hall of Candelario by the famous Catalan architect Benito Guitart Trulls. It has four floors, in the first were the jail, the telegraph office and the post office, this is still at this time. On the second floor were the plenary hall, the mayor's office, the secretary's office (these are still the same) and the courthouse (now on the third floor). On the third floor the telegrapher's, the bailiff's and the secretary's houses (later they were for the teachers until a few years ago). And in the fourth the attic.

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Las Regaderas

The watering cans are a singular element of this town. They are a kind of small channels that cross the entire town from the top of the village to its lowest part. These watering cans that adorn the alleys of the town are used to irrigate the nearby orchards and had the utility of dragging the offal and the blood of the pig during the slaughtering season. The water comes from the springs and from the thawing of the nearby mountains. The watering cans reflect a way of life of some inhabitants subject to the hostilities of the environment and that with imagination built domestic and popular elements that have given style and character to the village.

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Cristo del Refugio Chapel

This hermitage receives the visitor as soon as he enters the town of Candelario and is called the Ermita del Santo Cristo del Refugio, in a large esplanade presided over by the Cruz de término. Inside rests the Christ of the Refuge, of great devotion on the part of the neighbors of the locality. The hermitage is presided over by a baroque altarpiece, with stipites that frame two niches topped with the coats of arms of the order, one of them housing an exceptional carving of San Vicente Ferrer, and the central one the so-called Cristo del Refugio, a small carving of a crucified that is probably from the late sixteenth century. The coats of arms of the altarpiece, with the arms of the Zúñiga family, are placed on the walls of the nave and judging by its size, the altarpiece must have been of great quality and considerable dimensions.

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Church of Our Lady of the Assumption

It is, without a doubt, the most outstanding building in the town of Candelario. Of great proportions, it is a mixture of different architectural styles (Mudejar, Baroque, Romanesque and Gothic). Its interior is composed of three naves, separated by large semicircular arches. In the central nave is the main altar, covered by a Mudejar coffered ceiling in whose altarpiece there is an allegory of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. In the lateral naves we find rich altars of the Sacred Hearts; Santa Ana, patron saint of the town, or that of the Christ of Mercy. Among the altarpieces stands out the one dedicated to the Martyrs, work of carving and brush on board of the XVI century. The facade is decorated with a rose window of complicated Gothic tracery and on the north side there is a simple doorway with archivolts and the arms of the Zúñiga family, dukes of Béjar and lords of the town of Candelario. The first stone was laid in 1329, although its construction must have been deficient, since in the 17th century part of its masonry collapsed, proceeding to the construction of another on the initiative of the Duke of Béjar, who contributed with his own funds to the reconstruction of the same, hence the coat of arms of the ducal house on the doorway of the north side. In the tower of the temple, of 28 meters and exterior entrance, was installed the clock that marked the time of the town. Like the church, the original tower was much more slender, but in 1929, during a storm, part of it collapsed and when it was rebuilt it was not finished off.

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The batwing doors

One of the most curious and easily recognizable elements of the house, which makes it unique, is the bat door that protects its access from the outside. With this name we refer to the half door that precedes and protects the door of the house. Of wood and with a variable top in its design it seems to reunite different functions, referred to this interested one, by the oldest of the place, in the work of field carried out throughout the years. For some it defended the house from the climatic rigors based on the frequent snowfalls that accumulated in streets and accesses. For others, they allowed the house to be aired without fear of the entry of some of the livestock that frequently roamed the streets of the town. Finally, for many, they were part of the daily chores of the house, allowing the slaughterer, from inside the house, from the doorway, to give the cattle the definitive blow that would put an end to their lives and initiate the slaughter process. In fact, in some of them you can see a curious iron ring and a hook, of the same material through which the rope that held the cattle was passed, to pull it from the inside and bring it closer to the door, thus facilitating the work of slaughter without fear of blows, goring or gashes.

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Museum of the Casa Chacinera de Candelario (Candelario Sausage House)

The chacinera house is a very particular form of traditional architecture found in the town of Candelario. It is a building that combines two main uses under the same roof: housing and sausage factory. The slaughter was carried out in the street and in the slaughterhouse the meat was minced, marinated and stuffed into casings to make the sausages. In all these tasks many young men and women participated, not only in Candelario, but also from other villages in the region, such as La Garganta and El Tremedal, so that during the slaughter time the slaughter houses would become a bustling hive of people.

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Artisan and Coworking Center

Centro de Artesanos y Oficios Rurales - Workshops of different handicrafts Candelario Coworking https://centroartesanocandelario.es/

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