The Church of San Carlos Borromeo (XVIII-XIX) - Ontinyent

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Address: Carrer de Maians, 56 46870 Ontinyent Valencia

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Open holidays: No

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The origin of the current church is the oratory of the Society of Jesus (created in 1703). It would serve then a temple associated to the school of Jesuits of Ontinyent, that worked from 1703 until the expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767. Later it served as a temple. It consists of four very well differentiated parts: on the one hand the main nave and the square bell tower (baroque), to which, in 1882, the sacristy and the communion chapel will be added, with a formidable foot of 19 m of height that serves as a base. The sides of the main nave host six chapels each, between the buttresses, communicated by means of semicircular arches. The predominant style is Baroque, except in the communion chapel, where a Neo-Byzantine style decoration was made by the local artist Carles Tormo, Carlets. It is also necessary to highlight the main portal of chopped stone, the porthole and the window that are testimonies of the Baroque primitive style (18th century). The set corresponds to different chronological periods: XVIII century (main nave, bell tower), XIX century (sacristy and Communion chapel). The building has undergone various reforms: one  that have served to maintain the  interior (1951) and the exterior (1942), and another in recent years, already in the twenty-first century.

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