Pinos del Valle village in El Pinar municipal district |
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Iglesia de San Sebastián
The church was built on the site of an old rábida, a military and/or religious fortress built by Muslims in Al-Andalus to protect their borders from Christian invaders. It was located on the Camino Real, which led to the Costa Tropical. Following the War of Independence in the early eighteenth century, Cardinal Juan José Bonel y Orbe — Cardinal Primate of Spain, Archbishop of Toledo and confessor to Queen Isabel II — decided to build the church. Designed in the Neoclassical style, the church is a rectangular building with three naves and a transept. The transept and the main chapel were added during a restoration in the nineteenth century. The main chapel's triptych, crafted from polychrome wood by Domingo Sánchez Mesa, is particularly notable. It contains images of Cristo del Zapato and the town’s patron saints: San Roque and San Sebastián. The façade is notable for its simplicity, as well as for the two towers located at the base of the building, one of which remains unfinished. The other tower is topped with an orange-coloured dome over the bell tower. The church is located on Calle Coronel Orbe.