Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción
Monument
23211, Carboneros How to get
The most significant building in Carboneros is its parish church, dedicated, like so many others from the same period, to the dedication of the Immaculate Conception. The temple, built in the last third of the 18th century, presents a great architectural package within the purest neoclassical style. Thus, it represents the new typology of the architecture of reason, which has as its reference the adequacy between pure functionality and the geometrization of form. The functional severity of its forms is also perfectly suited to the taste for naked volumetry.
Its façade is not in line with the street, but moves backwards, creating a false elliptical square as an urban space of respect. The façade, which makes no concessions to ornamentation, is made of magnificent ashlar masonry and has pilasters at the corners. With perfect symmetry, the central body consists of a semicircular arch emphasized by a Doric-Tuscan entablature crowned by a pediment and two large niches also flanked by pilasters. On the second floor four large oculi open. The belfry, incorporated late, underlines that the church must be the highest official building in the municipality.Inside, its floor plan, with a single nave, is rectangular and is covered with a half-barrel vault that rests on false semicircular arches with moldings geometric. The headboard is flat and the choir is located at the foot.