Ermita de Cristo del Llano - Baños de la Encina
The most impressive element of this seventh-century church is its great prismatic dressing room-tower, added around the middle of the eighteenth century. Inside, it offers a spectacular Baroque vision: the spatial illusion becomes lavish in the multi-lobed vault on trunks in which stipes, niches and pedestals, in polychrome plasterwork, alternate with allegories, iconography of saints and evangelists and even exotic birds, fruits and vegetables, in a motley stucco decoration that gains even more intensity with the inlay of mirrors. The figure of the Inmaculada presides over the complex space, which is accessed by a small landing with a half-orange vault on pendentives of great expression and exquisite beauty. The primary objective of this architecture was to stimulate the piety of the faithful; the sculpture, ornament and decoration of the tower are a colourful, aesthetic accentuation of the call to prayer. Declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 2009.
Location
Located in Plaza de la Ermita.