Town Hall
The city’s most notable civil building was designed by the prestigious architect from Almería, Enrique López Rull. With a historicist aesthetic, the facade stands out with its doorway, which is covered in ashlar and runs through both floors of the building. Inside, in addition to the Consistory’s own offices, is the Municipal Archive, which contains the oldest documents from the conquest of this city by the Catholic Monarchs (it holds the documents produced by the Town Hall from 1496 to the present).
Location
Plaza Mayor Nº 1
CP 04620, Vera
Hours
Monday to Friday from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Phone
950 39 30 16
Our Lady of the Incarnation Fortress Church
Built between 1520-1524 by Moorish master builders under the direction of Francisco Capilla.
The uniqueness of this church is due to its Mudejar-Andalusian fortress-type structure for the defensive purpose it had to fulfill, since the area was a Christian enclave surrounded by Moorish population and haunted by the Berber danger represented by the sea.
In the late Gothic style with a Baroque interior decoration, the Main Altarpiece stands out, made of Canadian pine, placed at the end of the 18th century, and the altarpiece of the Virgin of Victory or Altarpiece of the Moor, located on the side of the main nave, with allusions to the concern about the danger of Berber pirate attacks (possibly unique in Spain on this theme).
Location
Plaza Mayor Nº 1
CP 04620, Vera
Visiting hours
Monday to Saturday from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM and during worship hours.
Church of the Convent of Ntra. Sra. de la Victoria (17th century)
Also known as the Church of the Convent of the Minim Friars. The temple was built in 1606 on the old hermitage of San Cleofás de la Victoria, erected in commemoration of the failed siege attempt by Aben-Humeya to the city of Vera on September 25, 1569, the day of San Cleofás (Patron of Vera). The religious order of the Minim Friars settled in Vera in 1606 and remained until the 2nd decade of the 19th century. This church also served as a cemetery from the 17th to the 19th centuries.
Currently, its interior stands out for its eclectic paintings and is distributed in the epistolary chapels, the main altar (the fresco of the mantle dates from the 19th century) and the evangelist chapels.
Used today as an exhibition hall, it also hosts numerous cultural activities throughout the year.
Location
Calle Juan Anglada Nº 8
CP 04620, Vera
Visiting hours
Winter:
Tuesday to Saturday 10:30 AM to 1 PM and 4 PM to 7 PM
Sundays and holidays from 10:30 AM to 1 PM
Summer:
Tuesday to Saturday 10:30 AM to 1 PM and 5 PM to 8 PM
Sundays and holidays from 10:30 AM to 1 PM
Closed local holidays (June 10 and September 25), December 25, January 1 and 6.
Hydraulic complex – Municipal Laundry of the Fuente de los Cuatro Caños (17th - 20th centuries)
The Fuente Chica was originally a gallery built by the first Arabs who populated the Cerro del Espíritu Santo. Originally bitter water, in the 19th century it was renovated, with potable water from the public network flowing from one of the pipes. Since then it will be known as the “Fountain of the Four Pipes”. The most important reforms were carried out at the beginning of the 20th century, when the laundry was added. Currently, it has become the Water Culture Interpretation Center (CICA).
Location
Calle Camino de los Cuatro Caños Nº 16
CP 04620, Vera
Visiting hours
Winter:
Tuesday to Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM and from 5 PM to 7 PM
Sundays and holidays from 10 AM to 2 PM
Summer:
Tuesday to Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM and from 6 PM to 8 PM
Sundays and holidays from 10 AM to 2 PM
Closed local holidays (June 10 and September 25), December 25, January 1 and 6.
Plaza de Toros 19th century Bullfighting Museum and Pottery Workshop-Museum
It is the oldest bullring in the province of Almería, inaugurated in 1879.
In its lower levels is the Bullfighting Museum, which takes a chronological tour of the history of bullfighting in Vera, through panels and display cases in which objects typical of bullfighting are exhibited, such as suits of lights, carriages, posters, photographs, documents, models, busts and other sculptures.
In row 5, located at the back of the square, you can visit the Pottery Workshop-Museum, where pieces are exhibited and made with the same mixture of earth as more than 500 years ago.
Location
Calle Mojigato Nº 3
CP 04620, Vera
Visiting hours
Winter:
Tuesday to Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM and from 5 PM to 7 PM
Sundays and holidays from 10 AM to 2 PM
Summer:
Tuesday to Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM and from 6 PM to 8 PM
Sundays and holidays from 10 AM to 2 PM
Closed local holidays (June 10 and September 25), December 25, January 1 and 6.
Hermitage of the Stma. Virgen de las Angustias, Patron Saint and Honorary and Perpetual Mayoress of the MN and ML City of Vera. (18th century)
The church we are facing is popularly known as the hermitage of the Patron Saint. Its construction dates back to 1715, as stated in the chapter act of October 19 of the same year, by which permission is requested from the City Council to begin the construction of the temple outside the walls of the old city.
The hermitage is the canonical seat of the Very Ancient, Illustrious, Venerable and Patronal Brotherhood of Ntra. Sra. La Stma. Virgen de las Angustias, founded on April 20, 1680. Inside, you can venerate the Sacred Image of the Virgin, a Baroque carving of a candelabra by an unknown author, dated around the year 1680.
The interior of the temple houses a permanent exhibition of the Brotherhood’s belongings in which you can see cloaks, banners and various utensils of the same.
Location
Calle del Mar Nº 3
CP 04620, Vera
Chapel of San Agustín (16th century)
The Church of San Agustín was the old hermitage of the Royal Hospital of San Agustín, ordered to be built by Emperor Charles V at the beginning of the 16th century after the destruction of the old Bayra, located on the Cerro del Espíritu Santo, by the earthquake of November 1518. Sober late-Baroque building, with a single nave with vaulted chapels between the interior buttresses, dedicated to the Virgen de la Milagrosa.
At the same time that the walls and the first houses of the new city are being built, the Hospital de San Agustín is built, whose chapel was finished in 1523, according to the document of award of works signed by the scribe, D. Alonso de Salas.
The Hospital de San Agustín was erected attached to the southern section of the original wall of the city, leaving today the only remaining wall in one of the side walls of the chapel.
Used since the 16th century as an orphanage, it later became the headquarters of the convent of the Daughters of Charity of San Vicente de Paul.
Location
Calle Inclusa Nº 2
CP 04620, Vera
The 19th-Century Glorieta and the Hermitage of San Ramón (18th Century)
La Glorieta, a green leisure and recreation area built as a result of the economic and demographic development caused by the mining industry of the second half of the 19th century. Inspired by the French romantic gardens, from its viewpoint, surrounded by beautiful gardens, we can contemplate the unbeatable views towards the sea and the valley. La Glorieta was designed selflessly by D. José Moreno Jorge, an industrial engineer from Alicante, based in Vera and an adopted son of this municipality.
Next to La Glorieta is the Hermitage of San Ramón. Built in the 18th century, it is a simple Baroque building in whose chapel is installed the image of Ntro. Padre Jesús Nazareno, the titular image of the brotherhood of the same name to which the hermitage was given for its custody in 1731.
Location
Calle San Ramón
CP 04620, Vera
Casa Orozco
Located on Calle del Mar, it was the house of the Orozco family saga. Commissioned by D. Ramón Orozco Gerez, a native of Vera who became the most important Almeria fortune of the 19th century, thanks to the exploitation of the region’s mines and the subsequent smelting on the beach of Garrucha.
The building is located in the transition from neoclassicism to the more decorative historicism, within a great monumentality and representative character on its three floors.
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From Vera
You can get to know the area much better by visiting the following spaces from Vera:
Almería
Cartagena
Pulpí Geode
Lorca
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