It is located in the right margin of the river Vero, on the foot of the mount Asba. In its one street are situated all the village houses. In many of them still remain the peculiar characteristics of the architecture of the region as stones walls, roofs of flagstones, semicircular arches on its facade, crests and coats of arms, as in Mur House.
Some houses stand out for his general characteristics or for some of his elements, like coats of arms, wrought-iron works, decoration made in wood …
Every year on Whitsunday its inhabitants celebrate a pilgrimage. It begins with the Cross of Santa Maria reception to those of the other localities and continues with a Mass and a Procession. It is a pilgrimage of thirteen villages, so in the year 1996 rose up to the Sanctuary category what earlier was just a hermitage.
The statue of the Virgin was found in a walnut and the name “Santa María de la Nuez” is due to the walnut branches that support the Child Jesus sitting on the Virgin. Although it seems to have a Romanesque origin, most of the Sanctuary constructions belong to the XVIth, XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries.
It is a buildings complex of wide dimensions that includes a country houses area, a church with a vestry and other liturgical buildings, the house of pilgrimage and the house of the caretaker of the sanctuary.
These buildings make up a complex around a yard of trapezoidal plant.
From this sanctuary it is possible to observe the lines of the arable lands and the almond trees, usually cultivated in this region.
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In the village vicinity there is the medieval deserted settlement of Miravet and the “Pelegrín” cave where, as the tradition tell, a carving of the Virgin appeared. There were engraved some different decorative motifs of late chronology (it appears the date of 1474).
We also find the Museum and Ethnological Site of Pedro Buil, where we can see how was the local inhabitants life.
The Church
The church has its origin in the XVIth century, nevertheless it was almost completely transformed in the XVIIIth century. In the south side we find the entrance door to the open courtyard and to the adjacent chapel.
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His plan is longitudinal, with only one rectangular nave covered by a barrel vault.
The head, higher that the nave, has a straight front and is covered with a pendentive dome.
To the feet we find the choir in a high place on an arch pillar. The decoration is baroque of popular character, emphasizing the head with paintings of vegetable motifs. In the triumphal arch stone we find the Coronation of the Virgin, and the Four Evangelists on ledges in the dome. Adjacent to the church are other religious buildings, like the vestry facing north, or the Chapel of the Saint Christ to the feet.
The four Evangelists are represented in the dome surrounding the scene of the Coronation of the Virgin.
Dome over pendentives dated in the XVIth century.
Most of the constructions are made on stone masonry of ashlar in the angles, what gives it a sober and popular aspect. The door dated in 1874, is framed in a round arch, in whose arch stone is engraved a cross of Lorraine and an inscription: 1552 Andreas me fecit.
With regard to the openings, it is possible to see some bevelled windows with faces in high relief and rope mouldings in the sill.
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