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From San Sebastian going through the Llano de la Cruz, which as its name says, holds a large flat cross in the centre, we follow the Juan Colín street, popular setting in the morning of Holy Friday, and we finally arrive at La Silera and the Munda Square.

Next to this, at the top of Ancha street, we find San Agustin Church and its old convent, recently declared a Property of Cultural Interest.

The foundation of the Augustan convent on 10th June 151 was due to the will of Alonso Sánchez Recio de León. This Alonso was the grandson of a knight from Leon called Francisco Sanchez, who settled in Montilla when he returned after capturing Antquera to where he had gone with the Infant don Fernando, brother of Huan II. The chosen location was the hermitage of San Cristobal, and the building started in 1520 with the Augustan Brother Pedro de Valencia taking possession.

In 1746 the alteration and raising of the current cloister was carried out.

This temple has a neoclassical architecture with a single nave and a wide nave. The present vault substituted the old coffered ceiling in 1861, having to renovate it again in 1884.

The main altarpiece has two sections with Renaissance style columns from the turn of the seventeenth century, headed by a crucifix of a peculiar style.

In the small chapel the admirable sculpture of a life-size Jesus the Nazarene is worshipped, probably by Juan de Mesa, belonging to the brotherhood of the same name. The images of Santo Tomas de Villanueva, San Juan Evangelista, San Agustin and San Juan de Dios are in the side niches.

Numerous images and altarpieces deserve special attention. The image of the Cristo de la Yedra belongs to the Seville school of the sixteenth century, which was previously in the hermitage of La Paz in the private oratory of San Juan de Avila. When he died it went to the Compañia de Jesús, and after they were expelled by Carlos III it was taken to San Agustin.

In each of both cases we find the Cristo Yacente of the seventeenth century and the Virgen del Transito from 1528. There are some baroque altarpieces and images such as San Antonio by Gaspar Lorenzo de las Cobos, and the San Juan and the Dolorosa by Juan de Mesa.

The walls are decorated with enormous canvases of the apostles from the eighteenth century, paid for in Seville with twelve large wine earthenware jars, belonging to the Nazarene Chapel. Next to the wrought-iron entrance gate there are two paintings that represent the martyrdom of Friar Diego Ortiz in Bilcabamba, from Peru and of Friar Tomas de San Agustin, missionary in Japan.

The chapel of Jesus the Nazarene was built under the auspice of Luis Francisco Fernandez de Cordoba, the principal Brother of the Brotherhood. It is a piece of work by Pedro de Borja.

The altarpiece is by Cristobal de Guadix and the sides by Gaspar de Lorenzo de las Cobos. In a canopy coming in on the right there is a crucifix Cristo del Perdón which belongs to the central altarpiece and whose author was probably Cristobal de Guadix. Next to this is a figure of Maria Santisima de los Dolores, by the Montillan sculptor Manuel Garnelo y Alda, dated 1942.

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GUIDED TOURS

-Wine cellar Pérez Barquero
-Mercedes Promenade
-Wine cellar Alvear
-The old arches of Montilla
-Council House
-The old hospital San Juan de
Dios
-Santa Ana Convent
-Casinos
-Casa de Aguas
-Library Ruiz Luque
-Garnelo museum
-Church of the Encarnation
-Plaza de la Rosa
-Garnelo Theatre
-The Hermit of the Rose
-Local History Museum
-House of the Camachas
-House of Don Diego Alvear
-Salesian school
-Montilla´s Castle
-Santiago Parish Church
-Escuchuela quarter
-House of Inca Garcilaso
-House of San Juan de Avila
-Santa Clara Convent
-Medinaceli Palace
-Cervantes Promenade
-San Sebastián Church
-San Agustín Church
-San Francisco Solano Church

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