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Its
streets are steeped in history. The street called La Corredera will
take us up to the Hospital de San Juan de Dios, where we can see the
fine statues of the Virgen de las Angustias and the Archangel Raphael.
At the top of Calle Nueva stands one of the town?s gems, the castle,
Arab in origin but thoroughly overhauled and modified since.
On
Calle Deán Espinosa stands the fifteenth-century church Iglesia de
Santa María, with a Platersque-Gothic style main front. The eye is
immediately drawn to its square tower, crowned by a beautiful belfry
that soars over the Plaza del Cabildo, the square in which the Town
Hall (Ayuntamiento) stands.
A
stroll through the delightful streets of Arcos de la Frontera will turn
up other interesting sights such as the Gothic-style Iglesia de San
Pedro, the Iglesia de San Agustín, the colonial style Asilo de la
Caridad (poorhouse) and finally the Puerta de Matrera, the gate originally forming part of the sixteenth-century Arab wall.
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