Nuestra Señora de los Remedios Church

The parish of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios is a parish church located in Zuheros. Originally, the Church of Los Remedios was under a different dedication, Santa Maria. The present church began to be built in 1590. Because the original church under the title of Santa Maria was too small to accommodate the population, the new one, with a single nave, was built under the title of Nuestra Señora de los Remedios. In 1696 the baroque altarpiece was placed, the half orange dome and the chapels of the Señor de la Humildad and del Rosario, the current Sagrario. The niches of the main altarpiece house images of the patron saint, a seated carving from the 13th century, although mutilated to dress her. Built under the mandate of Fernando Martines de Córdoba, with only one nave at the beginning, it underwent reforms in 1696. In the XVIII century a series of reforms were carried out, also buying the organ, raising the tower and building a second body in red brick that added the bell tower in the year 1795 that was made on the old minaret. Among some details of worship is the chalice of the XVl century work of the silversmith Pedro Fernandez and the carving of the patron saint Nuestra Señora de los Remedios of the Xlll century. The main altarpiece is made of gilded wood made in the XVII century, in the center of which is the patron saint of the town for which the parish is named, also the patron saint of the town to the right of the altarpiece, San Matías. Years later four chapels were built: to the left the chapel of Our Father Jesus Nazarene and the Virgin of Sorrows to the right starting from the altarpiece towards the street the chapel of the Holy Christ of Humility and Contempt in which there is another altarpiece of about the same time as the main one, Chapel of the Holy Tabernacle with another altarpiece also of the same date and chapel of the Holy Sepulchre and Christ of Charity. It has undergone several reforms in recent years, among them, the creation of a school workshop. The cemetery, built in the late seventeenth century, early eighteenth century, was removed in 1960, making the current cemetery of Zuheros in 1964.