In the right bank of the River Vero, it rests hung on the Choca Ravine, at the entry of the canyons and to the feet of the Guara Mountains. A walk along the village allows appreciating the beauty of this harmonic complex around a wide square and its only street.
The parish church of Saint John Bautista, which dates from the XVIth Century, receives the visitor in the village entry.
The current access to the temple is made through a door placed to the feet of the north wall, with a Renaissance decoration, and preceded of a modern atrium, in which there has been fixed a small monolithic window and the christogram of the original temple, found in a renovation of the surroundings.
Buildings as Sampietro House (XVIth century), with a beautiful doorway and ogee opening, Carruesco House (XVIth century), with tower and oratory, castle-house and other noble houses coexist with the popular architecture in buildings as the “Cubierto”, a place for meeting in the past, and the “Solanar” (suntrap), in the square, and also in elements as the “espantabrujas” chimneys (scare away witches).
Recently the ancient school of the village has been restored and turned into a tourist information office during the Holy Week, the summer and the longweekends.
We can appreciate also a few murals with explanations about the fauna of Lecina. In Lecina also it is possible to enjoy the traditional farming system samples, as the spring of Fuendios, the ice well of Balasanz, the stone shepherd huts, the "arnales", (about this item we will speak more in another paragraph) coal bunkers emplacements, the ancient smithy, the mill, the brickworks and the characteristic small walls of masonry that demarcates the lands and fields.
San Martin de la Choca Chapel
After approximately two hours walking on the path to Rotizo, in a very agreeable trip, across the spectacular Lecina Gorge in the river Vero, in the confluence with the Ravine of the Portiacha and the Basender Ravine, the tripper arrives to the Chapel of St Martin.
San Martin de la Choca Chapel
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In the surroundings there were small vegetables garden. Often, the floods of the River Vero caught unawares its keepers, which prepared with wooden structures the way of “Las Escaleretas” to be able to evacuate quickly the ravine.
This sanctuary is constructed in an opened rock shelter, partially erected in a cavity.
It has Romanesque origins and a plan of only one rectangular nave with a stone semicircular apse.
It was very altered in the XVIIth century.
The cobbled paving forms geometrical drawings and dates from 1706.
It is of a great archaeological interest since it is one of the few buildings dug in rock in Aragon. It is worth seeing and enjoying its landscape, that very close shows rock shelters and cave paintings.
This sanctuary is constructed in an opened rock shelter, partially erected in a cavity.
It has Romanesque origins and a plan of only one rectangular nave with a stone semicircular apse.
It was very altered in the XVIIth century.
The cobbled paving forms geometrical drawings and dates from 1706.
It is of a great archaeological interest since it is one of the few buildings dug in rock in Aragon. It is worth seeing and enjoying its landscape, that very close shows rock shelters and cave paintings.
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- Cave Painting|
- The holm oak Lecina |
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- The mills of Almazorre |
- San Esteban de Almazorre
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