Santa Ana Chapel

Santa Ana Chapel is located in El Retamar district. See in first person the Sistine Chapel of Montoro in its exclusive paintings on walls and ceiling. Understand its essence and small chapels, and you will realize that the size does not matter in terms of beauty, but it is important because of the treasures that has inside.

Before your visit you should know that this construction is on the other side of the town, where most of the monuments are concentrated, which makes this chapel location more enigmatic and curious – you will be able to discover it if you go on reading a little bit more.

Moreover, you will have to cross the Puente Mayor in order to visit this chapel, where you will be able to glimpse it only a few metres from there, which makes its beaten track very attractive, and there will be a panoramic view of Montoro behind you so you can capture the best memories.

What will you be able to see in this building?

Santa Ana Chapel has a single nave in the shape of an L, it is small and it has a small chapel in the central part and a simple altar on the right part of it. From its Sacristy we can ascend to the bell gable from where a bell coming from the disappeared San Miguel chapel hangs.

It stands out for its double portico with pointed arches on columns. In addition, it suffered important damages during the Civil War, the reason why after this conflict it was restored.

According to documentary sources in the Historical Municipal Archive, the construction of the hermitage is estimated to have taken place in the middle of the 16th century, where it is known that the last wish of a poor dying woman devastated by the Bubonic Plague or Black Plague was to entrust her soul to this hermitage dedicated to Santa Ana.

The Chapel at present

This place of worship houses the Holders of the Entrada Triunfal de Jesús en Jerusalén Brotherhood and the images of Santa Ana and San Joaquín. The Brotherhood, known as “La Borriquita”, has been commissioned to remodel this temple almost entirely, revealing its original stones and ashlars, restoring altars and painting the Sistine Chapel of Montoro by the artist Martin Gonzalez Laguna.