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Mazarrón
Si no has probado el asado de pulpo, este es tu sitio. 'Parazuelos 16' se encuentra en un rincón escondido de la costa de Mazarrón donde podrás disfrutar de sus arroces y tapas.
Chiringuitos
Puerto de Mazarrón (Mazarrón)
Monuments
Barranco de Los Asensios (Águilas)
Ancient defensive fortress located in a place of difficult accessibility.
Monuments
Torre Pacheco
The first stone of this tower was set on October 7th, 2005, the day of Nuestra Señora del Rosario's festivity, after a mass in her honour. The Church Tower is one of the greatest symbols of identity of Torre Pacheco, also reflected in its emblem. According to the elders, it was like a lighthouse that stood upright in the middle of the Campo de Cartagena. On the 7th October 2010, after 38 years of silence, the bells were rung, and it was inaugurated on the January 6th, 2011. The new tower has a modern design, during the day the result is a simple but clear geometry, a prismatic and continuous volume in height, differing from the church with steep forms so that both volumes are highlighted. The material used in the first section is large blocks of stone from Cabezo Gordo, the second section is alabaster (the material in which the Virgin of El Pasico is embodied) and the upper part is transparent glass with a clock. From this place you can see the stained-glass window at the back of the church, which represents the Joyful Mysteries, birth and first stage of the life of Jesus. A lily appears at the top, reminiscent of "The Annunciation", a dove symbolising the Holy Spirit, and the star that guided the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem. Finally, there are some doves and some scrolls.
Monuments
Cartagena
The church was once part of the former Convent of San Joaquín, the home of the Barefoot Carmelite Order. The façade combines elements of classical and popular architecture, and the interior has a single nave with side chapels.
Monuments
Blanca
The Parish Church of San Juan Evangelista acquired its current appearance in the 18th century, modest and austere Baroque, far from the later eighteenth-century pomposity. It has a rectangular floor plan, with three naves covered with a vaulted ceiling in the central nave and a barrel vault with lunettes on the sides. The main chapel, also rectangular in plan, is covered with a simple barrel vault, decorated with fresco paintings by Muñoz Barberán inspired by the Apocalypse, the book of the titular of the temple. The supports are square pillars with attached pilasters that contribute to the cruciform appearance of its floors. The triumphal and transverse arches, all of them semi-circular, start from the pillars. Above the transept, there is a half-orange copula, on pendentives, with four óculos that provide natural light for the fresco paintings by Muñoz Barberán from 1968, referring to the Assumption of the Virgin. Two of the four pendentives also belong to the same artist, dedicated to the evangelists, accompanied by their respective symbols, whose work was cut short by the 1968 earthquake, when the artist, on his own initiative, decided not to continue, possibly for fear of a repetition of the earthquake and the risk involved in working permanently on scaffolding. The other two represent medallions, one with the cross of Santiago and the other with a chalice. On the outside, the building has an austere ashlar stone façade with few concessions to decoration. The access to the first section is formed by a semi-circular arch, the keystone of which is decorated with the cross of Santiago, the military order under whose rule the church was built. The second section rises from the plasterwork that acts as an entablature above which there is a quadrangular opening that is enclosed and flanked by decorative geometric motifs consisting of pyramids on prismatic floors, crowned by balls, very typical motifs from El Escorial of early 17th-century. The keystone of the lintel of the quadrangular opening, which is decorative on the outside while providing natural light for the choir, contains the ornamental motif of the keys of St. Peter. On top of this new dust cap, on which the aforementioned decorative elements are repeated, on both sides of a cross. To the right of the façade is the tower, with three sections and a pyramidal top in the form of a capital, where the aforementioned geometric ornamental motifs are repeated. Ángel Ríos Martínez Official Chronicler of Blanca
Monuments
Alhama de Murcia
The Iglesia de San Lázaro Obispo is located on the 14th century Christian, dedicated to Saint Lazarus, yet possibly built on the old mosque. The temple was extended in the 16th century under the patronage of the Marquis of los Velez. It was rebuilt in the first half of the 18th century with Baroque architectural aesthetics, highlighting its facade-altarpiece made of ashlar, divided into a three part Baroque facade-altarpiece, made from an advanced Baroque alcove and two towers, one of the three parts has a bell tower and a clock, and the other two are unfinished. The inside consists of a single nave with a barrel vault, lunettes and a rocky decor. On the transept, a dome rises over the pendentives with paintings of the four Evangelists, made by Silvestre Martinez Teruel in the 18th century. Its neoclassical character is reflected in the Communion or Rosary chapel, the sacristy and the safe-keeping room of San Lázaro, works made during the transition between the 18th and 19th centuries, under the supervision of architect Lorenzo Alonso's.
