Rating
4.4/5 (based on Google user reviews)
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User Reviews
Alvaro (20 months ago)
Beautiful Church and the parish priest is a magnificent priest who does not leave you indifferent. Brilliant the work of the catechists with the boys and girls of Villaviciosa!!! Congratulations!
Beautiful Church and the parish priest is a magnificent priest who does not leave you indifferent. Brilliant the work of the catechists with the boys and girls of Villaviciosa!!! Congratulations!
Amparo Martín Martín (ampower) (2 years ago)
Church of the old convent of San Francisco. Located in the square of the same name. I was particularly surprised by the depth of the church, the interior is not particularly flashy but the exterior and the setting in which it is located is pretty. It is located at one end of the old town
Church of the old convent of San Francisco. Located in the square of the same name. I was particularly surprised by the depth of the church, the interior is not particularly flashy but the exterior and the setting in which it is located is pretty. It is located at one end of the old town
Raúl Ramos Solar (2 years ago)
The current parish church of Santa María de la Anunciación (former church of San Francisco) was the church of an old Franciscan convent (Convent-Seminary of missionary fathers of San Juan de Capristano), erected in the former suburb of Fuera'l Cañu, Construction began in 1734, extending the last part of the works (south wing) beyond 1836, the year in which the monks were exclaustrated as a result of the Confiscation of Mendizábal. The monastic dependencies then went on to perform other functions; According to Fermín Canella, they were used as the Town Hall, school, secondary school, theater, hospital, headquarters of the National Treasury... The church became the parish church of Villaviciosa in 1838. The erection works of the conventual church, which dates from 1743, were directed by the master stonemason José de la Iglesia; its cost amounted to 36,500 reais. The materials used are regular ashlars and exposed and plastered masonry. The church is a large building, with a sober appearance on the outside, where the attached bell tower and the portico stand out. The tower, a body with a square plan that forms an L with the imafronte, has three floors with openings closed by semicircular arches, except for the central ones, which are lintels; it is the only outstanding volume in height; the façade, on the other hand, has a marked tendency towards horizontality, which further accentuates its portico, which opens to the outside through an arcade supported by thick pillars with the shields of the Franciscan Institute and of Spain on its spandrels. This temple has a single nave with four sections covered with lunette vaults, as well as a transept that is quite pronounced in plan and a head, both of which are vaulted (groin vault). On the north side of the nave there are two chapels linked to it through a round archway on ashlars. One of these chapels guards the altar and the image dedicated to it of Our Lady of the Portal of Belén, Patron Saint of Villaviciosa.
The current parish church of Santa María de la Anunciación (former church of San Francisco) was the church of an old Franciscan convent (Convent-Seminary of missionary fathers of San Juan de Capristano), erected in the former suburb of Fuera'l Cañu, Construction began in 1734, extending the last part of the works (south wing) beyond 1836, the year in which the monks were exclaustrated as a result of the Confiscation of Mendizábal. The monastic dependencies then went on to perform other functions; According to Fermín Canella, they were used as the Town Hall, school, secondary school, theater, hospital, headquarters of the National Treasury... The church became the parish church of Villaviciosa in 1838. The erection works of the conventual church, which dates from 1743, were directed by the master stonemason José de la Iglesia; its cost amounted to 36,500 reais. The materials used are regular ashlars and exposed and plastered masonry. The church is a large building, with a sober appearance on the outside, where the attached bell tower and the portico stand out. The tower, a body with a square plan that forms an L with the imafronte, has three floors with openings closed by semicircular arches, except for the central ones, which are lintels; it is the only outstanding volume in height; the façade, on the other hand, has a marked tendency towards horizontality, which further accentuates its portico, which opens to the outside through an arcade supported by thick pillars with the shields of the Franciscan Institute and of Spain on its spandrels. This temple has a single nave with four sections covered with lunette vaults, as well as a transept that is quite pronounced in plan and a head, both of which are vaulted (groin vault). On the north side of the nave there are two chapels linked to it through a round archway on ashlars. One of these chapels guards the altar and the image dedicated to it of Our Lady of the Portal of Belén, Patron Saint of Villaviciosa.
Victor Sanchez (2 years ago)
It is essential to visit its museum of its Easter steps, as well as attend the departures of the different processions, a sacred spectacle full of popular fervor
It is essential to visit its museum of its Easter steps, as well as attend the departures of the different processions, a sacred spectacle full of popular fervor
paloma gonzalez-posada (3 years ago)
Cozy church, with a very good priest and young people
Cozy church, with a very good priest and young people
