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Welcome to Fortuna! Welcome everybody!I am Fortuna, the Roman goddess of luck. Today I want to tell you the story of a very special town.This village has the same nameas me: FortunaThis village is in Murcia.Murcia is a province and a city of Spain.Murcia has a great...

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Hermitage of San Antón (Saint Anthony) This is the most recent hermitage in the municipality of Fortuna, where the image of San Antón can be found throughout the year. It is during Holy Week when this hermitage becomes the Holy Sepulchre for the ‘burial’ of the...

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Casa Consistorial (Town Hall) Modernist style building constructed in 1906 by order of Don Matías Pérez Carrillo with the purpose of using it as a hotel. Nowadays, this building is the Town Hall of Fortuna. The hall is particularly noteworthy, where we can appreciate...

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Convent house The Convent House is located in Purísima Street and is a great example of Modernist architecture, dating from the end of the 19th century. The building, popularly known as ‘Casa Convento’ or ‘Casa Palazón’, was built on the initiative of Don Juan Palazón...

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Virgen de la Purísima (Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception) The Virgen de la Purísima is the patron of Fortuna. The image of this virgin, which dates from the 17th century, has been attributed to the school of the sculptor Alonso Cano. With this image the sculptor...

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Bell tower The bell tower that we can admire today is the product of a 1998 restoration that attempted to restore its Baroque appearance by eliminating the 20th century...