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22-04-2023, 08:17 PM
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The hermitage of La Caldereta, a controversial sanctuary.
Fuerteventura has a large number of cultural and historical buildings, among which is the Hermitage of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores and San Miguel Arcángel, declared of Cultural Interest on April 4, 2008.
A controversial building for the neighbors
The foundation of a hermitage in La Caldereta had in the background a strong litigation between the neighbors of this place and those of the neighboring town of Vallebrón.
The small rural nucleus of La Caldereta de los Denises, until the end of the eighteenth century, did not have its own sanctuary that allowed its neighbors to comply with religious precepts, having to move to La Oliva or Vallebrón to comply with them, generating a series of discomforts and losses of time, mainly in times of greater agricultural work and in periods of rain.
Demographic expansion and economic boom
The hamlet of La Caldereta arises, possibly, as a result of the demographic takeoff of the eighteenth century, motivated by the economic prosperity that is lived at that time on the island that implied the expansion of the vegas and the foundation of small rural nuclei, whose economic activity was based on agriculture and livestock, as is the case of La Caldereta, activities that are still in place.
In the nineties of the eighteenth century the neighbors of this small payment began the relevant procedures before the bishopric to have their own hermitage, near their place of residence, but their first intention was not to erect a new temple but, based on the fact that the town of Vallebrón had two sanctuaries, one dedicated to Our Lady of Grace and another to San Juan, decided to ask the Bishop to transfer the first temple, with the image and materials, to La Caldereta endorsing their request the co-patrons of the hermitage of Gracia, neighbors of the payment of La Caldereta. This request was to the liking of Bishop who gave his approval to the transfer of the temple.
Strong opposition
The resolution of the Bishop, of the transfer of the temple, immediately had a strong opposition from the neighbors of Vallebrón, generating a conflict between both payments, which determined that the Bishop decreed the suspension of the transfer of the hermitage.
Resolution that, of course, did not please the residents of La Caldereta, although they accepted it for a while, waiting for tempers to calm down and to be able to continue with their attempt to transfer. Faced with the impossibility of agreement between the inhabitants of both payments, the neighbors of La Caldereta decide to request authorization from the Bishop to build a new temple, dedicated to Our Lady of Grace, committing to erect it at the expense of the neighbors and with the donations of the devotees. Bishop D. Antonio Tavira gives his authorization on July 14, 1792.
Several years to erect the building and a change of ownership
The construction of the temple was not carried out immediately, but after sixteen years after its authorization, also occurring at this time that the neighbors decide to change the ownership of the temple of Our Lady of Grace by that of Our Lady of Sorrows and San Miguel Arcángel, for which they request a license to change ownership of the temple, obtaining the same in the general visit made by Bishop D. Manuel Verdugo in 1800.
In the year 1808 the hermitage was completely finished but it did not have endowment to sustain its maintenance, a problem that had to be solved before its blessing, which is why the neighbors, who had raised and decorated it at their expense, are committed, in a document signed before a notary public in February 1808 in La Oliva, to the maintenance of the temple and on February 11 of that same year authorization is requested to proceed to bless the hermitage. Act that occurred on March 24 of that year, officiated by the priest D. Manuel Francisco Rodríguez de Godoy.
Building structure
The hermitage was built on a flat land, of small dimensions, with a single floor in rectangular shape and sacristy attached to the side of the epistle, at the height of the main chapel. The current temple is covered with three waters and the sacristy with flat roof, both are made following the methods of traditional rural architecture, with a rather rustic image, which has been maintained over time. The sacristy is accessed from a door in the west wall, it is quite low, lintelled and on three steps. The temple can be accessed from two doors, a lateral one open towards the middle of the south wall and the main door in the west wall. The lateral is lintelled and quite low; It is accessed from 4 steps of whitewashed masonry. The main façade is framed in dark stonework and finished in a semicircular arch. The belfry is located in the center of the façade, placed at the top of the gable, is more recent than the temple, has a rectangular shape, with a bell hole topped with a semicircular arch and crowning the set is a small cross. In front of the main door there is also a white slab paving. The hermitage and sacristy are surrounded by a low wall, masonry, whitewashed and whitewashed and in the middle of the esplanade in front of the temple, in front of the main door is the calvary, double circular tier, masonry and whitewashed.
Interior structure
Inside the hermitage has a three-sided roof with almizate decorated with simple lacería; Three simple wooden braces in the nave and four small ones in the corners counteract the thrust exerted by the roof on the walls. A wooden strip attached to the wall, painted brown, runs along the entire interior perimeter of the nave, at a height of approximately 80 cm high, surrounding the openings of the doors. The high altar rises from the rest of the nave by a small step.
Source: Government of the Canary Islands
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The hermitage of La Caldereta, a controversial sanctuary.
Fuerteventura has a large number of cultural and historical buildings, among which is the Hermitage of Nuestra Señora de los Dolores and San Miguel Arcángel, declared of Cultural Interest on April 4, 2008.
A controversial building for the neighbors
The foundation of a hermitage in La Caldereta had in the background a strong litigation between the neighbors of this place and those of the neighboring town of Vallebrón.
The small rural nucleus of La Caldereta de los Denises, until the end of the eighteenth century, did not have its own sanctuary that allowed its neighbors to comply with religious precepts, having to move to La Oliva or Vallebrón to comply with them, generating a series of discomforts and losses of time, mainly in times of greater agricultural work and in periods of rain.
Demographic expansion and economic boom
The hamlet of La Caldereta arises, possibly, as a result of the demographic takeoff of the eighteenth century, motivated by the economic prosperity that is lived at that time on the island that implied the expansion of the vegas and the foundation of small rural nuclei, whose economic activity was based on agriculture and livestock, as is the case of La Caldereta, activities that are still in place.
In the nineties of the eighteenth century the neighbors of this small payment began the relevant procedures before the bishopric to have their own hermitage, near their place of residence, but their first intention was not to erect a new temple but, based on the fact that the town of Vallebrón had two sanctuaries, one dedicated to Our Lady of Grace and another to San Juan, decided to ask the Bishop to transfer the first temple, with the image and materials, to La Caldereta endorsing their request the co-patrons of the hermitage of Gracia, neighbors of the payment of La Caldereta. This request was to the liking of Bishop who gave his approval to the transfer of the temple.
Strong opposition
The resolution of the Bishop, of the transfer of the temple, immediately had a strong opposition from the neighbors of Vallebrón, generating a conflict between both payments, which determined that the Bishop decreed the suspension of the transfer of the hermitage.
Resolution that, of course, did not please the residents of La Caldereta, although they accepted it for a while, waiting for tempers to calm down and to be able to continue with their attempt to transfer. Faced with the impossibility of agreement between the inhabitants of both payments, the neighbors of La Caldereta decide to request authorization from the Bishop to build a new temple, dedicated to Our Lady of Grace, committing to erect it at the expense of the neighbors and with the donations of the devotees. Bishop D. Antonio Tavira gives his authorization on July 14, 1792.
Several years to erect the building and a change of ownership
The construction of the temple was not carried out immediately, but after sixteen years after its authorization, also occurring at this time that the neighbors decide to change the ownership of the temple of Our Lady of Grace by that of Our Lady of Sorrows and San Miguel Arcángel, for which they request a license to change ownership of the temple, obtaining the same in the general visit made by Bishop D. Manuel Verdugo in 1800.
In the year 1808 the hermitage was completely finished but it did not have endowment to sustain its maintenance, a problem that had to be solved before its blessing, which is why the neighbors, who had raised and decorated it at their expense, are committed, in a document signed before a notary public in February 1808 in La Oliva, to the maintenance of the temple and on February 11 of that same year authorization is requested to proceed to bless the hermitage. Act that occurred on March 24 of that year, officiated by the priest D. Manuel Francisco Rodríguez de Godoy.
Building structure
The hermitage was built on a flat land, of small dimensions, with a single floor in rectangular shape and sacristy attached to the side of the epistle, at the height of the main chapel. The current temple is covered with three waters and the sacristy with flat roof, both are made following the methods of traditional rural architecture, with a rather rustic image, which has been maintained over time. The sacristy is accessed from a door in the west wall, it is quite low, lintelled and on three steps. The temple can be accessed from two doors, a lateral one open towards the middle of the south wall and the main door in the west wall. The lateral is lintelled and quite low; It is accessed from 4 steps of whitewashed masonry. The main façade is framed in dark stonework and finished in a semicircular arch. The belfry is located in the center of the façade, placed at the top of the gable, is more recent than the temple, has a rectangular shape, with a bell hole topped with a semicircular arch and crowning the set is a small cross. In front of the main door there is also a white slab paving. The hermitage and sacristy are surrounded by a low wall, masonry, whitewashed and whitewashed and in the middle of the esplanade in front of the temple, in front of the main door is the calvary, double circular tier, masonry and whitewashed.
Interior structure
Inside the hermitage has a three-sided roof with almizate decorated with simple lacería; Three simple wooden braces in the nave and four small ones in the corners counteract the thrust exerted by the roof on the walls. A wooden strip attached to the wall, painted brown, runs along the entire interior perimeter of the nave, at a height of approximately 80 cm high, surrounding the openings of the doors. The high altar rises from the rest of the nave by a small step.
Source: Government of the Canary Islands
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