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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Visit the Bell Tower Cemetery - Misses

The Bell Tower Cemetery, located in the Town of Erra, is the remnants of the old church, which has been destroyed in the earthquake of 1755.

Visit the Church of St. Matthew - Misses

The Church of St. Matthew, located in the Town of Erra is of Romanesque style, has a tile panel type "Mudejar" of the sixteenth century and a font of holy water, instead of the column, has a stone figure of the century century, of almost total relief, with his arms crossed above his head, being that they hold the cup, also the stone of the sixteenth century.
People call this figure "Erra Old." The facade has a portal surmounted by a rectangular window for illumination of the choir. Above the window, a niche is a rough stone sculpture of a virgin in the sixteenth century.

Visit the Archaeological Site of Cabeço Foot D'Erra

The archaeological site of Cabeço Foot D'Erra, located in the Town of Erra, has confirmed that traces the settlement of populations from the Paleolithic period. Found also objects dating from the Chalcolithic period, around 3000 years before Christ. Some of these objects, according to expert opinion, are between 2800 and 1500 BC It is presumed that this site existed at the time a town and its inhabitants lived on agriculture and pastoralism.