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Emphasizes the balance of the facade with six solid pointed arches and windows of the upper two floors.
The façade and stairs for access to the C / Hospital located two inscriptions from the Roman forum Dianium.
|  | Convent and Church of Our Lady of Loreto or of the Augustinian Nuns
Structure and interest:
The convent is a foundation of discalced Augustinian cloistered nuns (1564).
At the time the church was inaugurated Dénia was a marquisate, being the Marquis of Dénia, Mr. Francisco Sandoval y Rojas, also Duke of Lerma and a favourite of King Phillip III of Spain. The King, the Duke of Lerma and other outstanding personalities of the nobility and the church of that day and age attended the convent’s inauguration celebrations.
The architectonic collection includes the church, cloister and the cloister’s southern wing.
You can reach the later period small church (1691) when religious services are being held.
The exterior is austere and measured. Only two façades break its monotony. The main one is on Sant Narcís Street and the side one is in Loreto Street. It has a Latin cross plan inscribed in a rectangle with chapels which have no communication with each other and a wide transept with a dome over pendentives. It is covered with a barrel vault with lunettes and the chapels have a truncated dome. The elevation is made up of Doric pilasters, which were rebuilt after 1939. The altarpiece of the Santíssima Sang (Most Holy Blood) is in the high altar. There is also a contemporary sculpture of Our Lady of Sorrows, sculpted in melis pinewood in early 1941.
|  | 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.
|  | 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.
|  | 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.
|  | Hermitage San Salvador
It is a gothic-style chapel re-type landscape of great interest,
because from there you can admire a beautiful view of Calpe. Accessed
via a staircase at the Avd Masnou, near the plaza of San Salvador |  | 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.
|  | CHURCH OF SANT MATEU (SAINT MATHEW THE APOSTLE)
* Situation: Avinguda de l’Oest, La Xara, Dénia (Western Avenue)
* Opening hours: At the time of religious services and other church activities
* Interest: The church is the first public construction carried out in La Xara. Building began in 1877 and ended 5 years later, in 1881.
The building has exterior charge walls, with sandstone joined by mortar. Inside, the space is divided in 3 naves, separated by sandstone pillars, making up a number of beautiful arches, which support the two sided roof cover. Outside, in Pilar Street, four buttresses point out and defend the lines of the pillars.
The abbey was finished in 1902 and it has an entrance door and very interesting windows, one of the finest pieces of work of master stonemasons. Later on, the bell tower was inaugurated in 1927.
In the 1950s the church was reformed and gained its present day aspect. The high altar was finished in 1955, the roof was changed and it was discovered that the pillars and arches, then whitewashed, were in sandstone; therefore, the lime was cleaned in order to show the beauty of the tuff stone.
|  | The Church of the Assumption
* Situation: Plaça de la Constitució. (Constitution Square)
* Opening hours: At the time of religious services and other church activities
* Style: Measured baroque (18th c.)
* Historical note:
It rises on the spot where the old Sant Roc hermit stood, the hospital and a few houses. It was severely damaged during the Napoleonic or War of the French (19th c.), the Independence War and it was rebuilt in 1939.
Structure and interest:
It has a Latin cross plan inscribed in a rectangle. In the exterior, there is a noteworthy venerated niche on top of the door of the chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary. It has an image of Sant Roc, in modern style. Inside the church, we must point out the images of Our Lady –a polychromatic sculpture of the Assumption- and, next to it, saints Vicent Ferrer and Vicent Màrtir, both patron saints of the city of Valencia.
|  | The Church of Sant Antoni
* Situation:Plaça del Convent (Convent Square)
* Opening hours:At the time of religious services and other church activities
* Present day state: Its present day state is due to remodelling carried out in the 18th century.
Structure and interest:
It belongs to an architectonic collection made up by the Convent of Saint Anthony of Padova, a Franciscan foundation dated in the 16th c., which was built later on (first half 17th c) and includes the 17th c. square. This collection was severely damaged in the War of Succession, in the War of French and the Spanish Civil War.
The façade is of Doric order with a venerated niche containing a modern sculpture of Saint Anthony of Padova. This church has a Latin cross plan, inscribed in a rectangle, with a nave and 8 aisle chapels. The elevation is set with Doric order pilasters on pedestals. Inside the church, we must point out a great enamelled cross with Bible scenes presiding over the high altar.
|  | Les Drassanes
You will find them in the port, opposite the monument known as Bous a la mar (Bulls to the sea).
To be observed: the exterior of the building since the interior has been modified and currently houses a private hotel.
Historical note: old building where ships were built. It dates from the 16th c. although it was reformed during the 17th c.
Characteristics of the building: It has a rectangular plan, with a two-sided Arabic tiled roof.
|  | Torre del Gerro
A Renaissance watchtower, which was a part of the coastal defensive system developed during the 16th and 17th centuries to defend the coast from Barbaresque pirates’ incursions.
Although there are documents proving the existence of three towers in the park’s limits, the Del Gerro tower, a Renaissance fort (16th c.) is the only remaining one. It is one of the coast’s most outstanding towers. It has a circular shape, shaped like a truncated cone divided in 2 parts. We must point out King Charles V coat-of-arms, which rests over three consoles.
It owes its name to its strange form as a “pitcher” (gerro or pitxer).
|  | Yacimientos
The excavated area of the site of the Almadrava is part of a Roman
villa, including a pottery. Although it was discovered part of a
building with features of a house, most of the units that have been
seen and described a pottery show, in addition to the placement of jobs
and housing for workers, usually slaves, broad porches for drying
parts, wells for extracting water and baking ovens. This pottery was
engaged in the manufacture of tiles and amphorae.
The amphorae
may contain wine, oil or salt, with cereals, accounted for 90% of
traded products. Were designed for packaging and shipping waste and
that, once arrived in port and after transfer the content, pulling. | |