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Hermitages
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Hermitage of Santa Llúcia (Saint Lucy)
- Situation: In the country district of Santa Llúcia it can be reached by the Santa Llúcia path or by a detour in les Rotes Road.
- Opening hours: It is usually closed, except on Saint Lucy’s day (December, 13). On this day there is a pilgrimage to the hermitage, religious services, etc.
Interest: It belongs to a collection of religious buildings with a style known as “of the Christian conquest” (15th century).
The building has an only nave with a rectangular plan. The inside space is divided in two sections by a central pointed arch.
The façade has an entrance in ashlar with a half pointed arch, an ashlar corner reinforced with socle, as well as a bell gable, which was built later on.
Inside, the hermitage has been very much remodelled.
The image of Saint Lucy is quite recent.
Amongst movables, we must mention a chalice dated in the second half of the 17th c. with an image of Saint Lucy in its base. |
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Hermitage of Sant Joan (Saint John)
- Situation: On the southern slope of Mount Montgó, in the country district of Sant Joan (St. John). It is reached either by the Pou de la Muntanya path (Mountain Well) or by the Santa Llúcia (Saint Lucy) path.
- Opening hours: This hermitage is usually closed except for the Saint John Hermitage fiestas (June, 20-24), including a pilgrimage to the hermitage on St. John’s day (June, 24) with religious services as well as other traditional events.
Interest:
It is the most important “hermitage of the conquest” found in the district of Dénia.
The gothic hermitage is actually the central nave of the present day building. It is an only nave with a rectangular plan and a two-sided roof held by two pointed gothic arches.
The entrance arch is made up of a half pointed arch and the main façade is crowned by a bell gable.
The hermit’s house is actually used as a sacristy. It is attached to the original building and it is the result of a reform of the primitive hermitage.
Typologically, it is included in the collection of “hermitages of the Christian conquest”, which were built between the 13th and 15th centuries, not affecting the original structure, but with elements that define and embellish it. |
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Hermitage of Santa Paula
- Situation: to the west of the city, 1,5 km from the city, giving name to that area of the district.
- Opening hours: This hermitage is usually closed except on Santa Paula’s day (January, 26) when religious services are held as well as a pilgrimage to the hermitage and other traditional events.
Interest: the hermitage belongs to the collection known as “hermitages of the Christian conquest”, with one nave, ogival arches, a model that will last until the 16th century, disappearing with the arrival of the Renaissance.
It has a rectangular plan, a one nave building, slightly out of shape. Inside, two pointed arches, which are almost half pointed, subdivide the plan in three sections. A bench annexed to the exterior walls runs around the hermitage.
It has a two-sided roof with Arabic tiles. |
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Hermitage and small house of Pare Pere (Father Peter)
- Situation: it is on the northern slope of Mount Montgó. It is reached by the camí de laColònia (Colony’s path). It is some 600 metres from Sant Joan (St. John) Hermitage.
There is a hermitage next to Father Peter’s house.
- Timetable: The small Pare Pere (Father Peter) house is always open, not only during religious services but also when there aren’t any.
Interest:
It is linked to the life and works of the venerated Dénia neighbour, Brother Pere Esteve (1583-1658).
Permanent tradition in Dénia, which has never been denied, holds that this is the small house of Father Pere and, therefore, the venerated Brother Father Pere used it for some time as a shelter. The house is a vaulted hut, so small that you have to bend down a lot to get into it.
Next to it there is a hermitage built in the 19th century with scenes (in Valencian ceramic images) concerning the life and works of Brother Pere Esteve.
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JESUS POBRE HERMITAGE
- Situation: in the village of Jesús Pobre, in the district of Dénia, on the western slope of Mount Montgó.
- Time table: At the time of religious services
Interest: The collection includes two buildings: the convent (18th c.) and the church (18th c.) built in different dates. The first is a private property. Outside, the collection makes up one only block.
The church has a rectangular plan, with one nave in four sections, with a barrel vault and aisle chapels, which have no communication amongst each other. The last section belongs to the high chapel. The interior elevation is made up of Doric pilasters and the capitals all follow the same model.
The high chapel (last quarter 17th c.) was built after the nave of the church and it has a completely different style than the rest of the temple. The high presbytery is more conceived as an alcove than a church, since it was here that the sculpture of Jesús Pobre (Poor Jesus) was kept.
THE SCULPTURE OF JESÚS POBRE (Poor Jesus)
Of the ancient sculptures only a photograph of Jesús Pobre has reached us. It is a sculpture representing, in small size, an 18th c. “lying Christ”.
The present day sculpture was sculpted several years ago, in polychromatic wood and in small size to remain true to tradition.
The district village owes its name to the founding, by Father Pere (brother Pere Esteve) of a sculpture of Christ lying in the sepulchre to which, from that very same day, he dedicated an altar in the cave where he lived. Father Pere named this small image Jesús Pobre (the poor Jesús).
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