Iglesia San Juan Bautista

Religious

It is a temple with a Latin cross plan. The main nave is covered by a barrel vault followed by a hemispherical dome, with lunettes where the windows are located, while the two lateral naves, formed by the perforation of the buttresses, house the chapels where various images are venerated. The cruise, with a dome on sculpted scallops, is formed by the discontinuity of the side chapels. On the Gospel side, we access the Chapel of the Virgen del Remedio. Large, has its own entrance, by the 'jardinet' (little garden), which has two columns on its exterior holding a cornice and, on those, two others that serve as an adornment to a niche occupied by the image of the Virgin of the Remedy, sculpted in 1765. Inside, an interesting altarpiece made of gilded and polychrome wood, recently restored, a work made in 1774 by the sculptor Francisco Mira, houses the dressing room with the image of the patron saint of Monóvar presiding over the chapel. its dome on pendentives sculpted with reliefs on the life of the Virgin. Through this chapel there is access to a third dedicated to San Miguel Arcángel, of neoclassical type, built in 1813, smaller, with a rectangular floor and a barrel vault, which is in a state of ruins. On the transept, on the side of the Epistle, there is attached a baroque organ, box José Martín, originally built in 1771 by the conqueror Julián de la Orden and rebuilt in the nineteenth century by Alberto Randeynes (1893). It was restored in its entirety throughout 2007. This church, although simple, is very solid, since it is all made of stone, except for the vaults. It has two towers, one of them unfinished, so only one is visible.