The original church was built by the master Francisco Lorenço, whose works concluded in this first stage around 1559. That same year, the area of worship was reduced to a rectangular nave with a main chapel separated by a central arch and the body.
The typology of these archaeological remains indicates that they are undoubtedly those of a second-century Roman funerary tower, erected to bury an important figure.
The seventeenth-century chapel has a box floor plan with a gabled roof, now concreted. The interior has a half-barrel vault with transverse arches and lunettes. Next to its main façade, there is a stone cross called the San Juan cross.
This chapel was documented in the seventeenth century, although the small iron cross of the same name is mentioned in documents dating as far back as the sixteenth century. Its exterior image offers a rectangular-shaped main façade, topped with a belfry that supports a small bell.
This chapel is built on the site of a former hermitage which was destroyed in 1998 due to some urban expansion works carried out on the street. Located on Calle Carrichete.
Since 2003, the mill has been declared a site of Andalusian Historical Heritage. Situated in the hydraulic complex of the Fuentes del Margen, and next to the Abrucena River, this hydraulic flour mill preserves only the aqueduct, which has a structure supported by seven semicircular arches.
The Tourist Office of Abla is located in Calle Balsillas, 9, Abrucena, opening from Monday to Friday.
Festivals in Abla: Baile de Ánimas, Día de Andalucía, Día de la Cruz de Mayo, Carrozas de San Isidro, Fiestas Patronales, Verbena de San Juan, Abla Rural Party and Fiestas de Agosto.
Abla offers its visitors interesting tours around the town and the chance to purchase some traditional crafts, such as rugs and esparto grass products. It has about 1,250 inhabitants. The town’s name is thought to come from Abula, dating to the Roman times. Madoz called it a white town because of Alba’s metathesis and Ptolemy cites it as an important Bastetani nucleus.