Churches · Grazalema (EN)

Hermitage of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles, located in the well-known "Paseo del Mediodía", just eight hundred meters from the town in the direction of Ronda. According to the oral tradition, in the place where the Hermitage was built, a shepherd at night observed that some luminaries were burning. Curious, he approached them and found among the stones the small image of a Virgin. This finding was the one that motivated the construction of the same one in 1889. It is the house of the patron saint of the grazalemeños, the Virgin of the Angels. Church of Our Lady of the Incarnation, located in the center of town a few meters from the Town Hall. Religious monument of the early seventeenth century of Mudejar origin, built in 1614 under the direction of the architect D. Pedro Diaz Palacios. It was rebuilt in the eighteenth century, after the assault of the French during the War of Independence and its partial destruction in the Civil War. Of its primitive architecture only a small chapel is preserved. Church of San José. Religious monument of the XVII century, with Arab reminiscences, that belonged to an old convent of the order of the Discalced Carmelites, of which there are still vestiges next to the park or "orchard" of San José. Its interior preserves a rich artistic heritage in altarpieces, images and ornaments, works by disciples of Murillo, and other images such as Santa Teresa and San Antonio (which only retains the head of its original carving) or the image of the crucified Christ of the seventeenth century of the Granada school. However, the image par excellence is that of the Virgen del Carmen, located in the central part of the church, of extraordinary beauty and great popular fervor. Church of Nuestra Señora de la Aurora . It is located at the easternmost end of the Plaza de España. It has its origin in the popular devotion to the street rosaries. It is a temple dating from the 17th century, with a façade in Renaissance style of transition to Baroque; which was partially destroyed during the Civil War and restored years later by the Caja de Ahorros de Ronda. Church of San Juan (Letran) . It is the smallest church of those that exist in the urban plot of Grazalema, seated a few meters from the central Plaza de España. It was built in the XVII century. It highlights its slender tower, located at the rear, which tops this temple of three naves in which currently there is no worship. It served as an isolation hospital during the nineteenth century, when cholera epidemics struck the Sierra de Cádiz.