4 Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción

The mother church, of which historical records date back to 1503, is connected to the origins of the town and its later trajectory. The current building is the third to occupy the site of a parish church created in 1515, and was built between 1768 and 1788 under the direction of stonemason Patricio José García and carpenter Miguel García de Chaves. Financed with alms from American trade sanctioned by King Carlos III, it is an admirable testimony to the academicism of the eighteenth century and the brand of worship encouraged by the clergy of the Enlightenment.

The outside bears finely wrought eighteenth-century detail, and the inside is a classical basilica shape of great structural purity with three naves, barrel vaults and a dome supported by pendentives in the transept. This aesthetic vision is backed up by notable works such as the marble Genoese tabernacle (1823), and it also features a dazzling collection of artefacts from very different styles and historical periods.