|
IGLESIA DE LOS REMEDIOS (s.XVIII)
The origin of this church is a legend. The legend says that in 1400 this was a forest full of pines, then the neighbors of Estepona, found a crucifix, which they attributed to the first Christians, those that were living during the Moslem epoch.
They constructed a hermitage in the place in which they had found the crucifix with the same trees that had to be felled to leave a space free for his building. He was been called Christ of the Veracruz and the neighborhood where houses were constructed, was called also of the same name.
Close to the hermitage they founded a hospice " of the Purest Concepcion of Holy Ana ". Between the year 1725 and 1766 it started knowing it as convent (of San Francisco) due to the Franciscan Parents of the Tertiary Order.
They came from Alcala the Real and it was called this way until 1889 when there moves the Church of the Remedies of the Plaza of the Clock to this place, the ruinous condition in which one was finding the former church.
|