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FONTANARS DEL ALFORINS

Population: 979 hab. Municipal area: 74,7 km2 Altitude: 628 m. Demonym: alforiner, alforinera Town Hall Phone no.: 96 222 22 33 Web: www.fontanarsdelsalforins.es E-mail: registre@fontanarsdelsalforins.es cultura@fontanarsdelsalforins.es

FONTANARS DELS ALFORINS

MONUMENTS Fontanars dels Alforins is a recent municipality. Independent of Ontinyent in 1927, its urban center develops basically during the twentieth century forming straight and flat streets where the parish church and its bell tower stand out.

century and was a subsidiary of the church of Santa Maria de Ontinyent until December 31, 1953 was converted into a parish, by Mr. Marcelino Olaechea y Loizaga, Archbishop of Valencia. It consists of a ship with buttresses and covered by cannon turn that rests on Corinthian pillars.

Parish Church of Our Lady of the Rosary It is located on the old hermitage of San Miguel and San Antonio Abad. This hermitage began to be built in the sixteenth

Bell tower Built in 1916 from a tower already built in 1864. It stands out for its characteristic and peculiar blue and white cover and for


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