The Ermita de San Sebastián in Caravaca de la Cruz

This modest 16^th century church is now home to a Caravaca music society

Popularly known as the “Ermita del Santo”, the small church in Caravaca de la Cruz dedicated to San Sebastián dates from the early 16^th century, and it is thought that it may at one time have been an annex of the school and church of the Compañía de Jesús.

The church is a very modest building in the Plaza del Santo, and is built of simple materials such as mortar, with a wooden roof. The outside is unpromising, but inside there are late Gothic murals forming an interesting altar screen, an almost unique feature in the churches of the Region of Murcia.

San Sebastian was called upon to protect from outbreaks of plague and plagues of locusts.

This church also occupies a site formerly used as a burial ground for the Moorish inhabitants of the city prior to the Reconquist.

The church now belongs to the Town Hall of Caravaca, and is currently home to one of the local music societies, as well as the store for the Gigantes y Cabezudos papier màche figures which parade during the Fiestas of the Santísima y Vera Cruz at the beginning of May..

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