SAINT AUGUSTINE HERMITAGE

Located in the Santa Bárbara area, it is accessed by the paved road that starts from the Santa Bárbara hermitage on CV245. It is a hermitage with a hexagonal floor plan with masonry walls and a curvilinear six-sided Arabic tile roof. Inside there is a niche to place the image of the saint. Both the interior and exterior were plastered and whitewashed, material that was removed in the last intervention at the beginning of the 21st century. The hermitage is from the 18th century, later than the Hermitage of Saint Barbara, and its origin is related to the discovery of Saint Augustine’s well, which owes its name to the day of its discovery, August 28, 1618, the feast of Saint Augustine. Surely the hermitage would be built decades later near the location of the well whose waters channeled by the Mena aqueduct to the fountain supplied Alcublas for almost 400 years.