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EL RÀFOL DE SALEM Population: 460 hab. Municipal area: 4,39 km2 Altitude: 298 m. Demonym: rafolí, rafolina Town Hall Phone no.: 96 281 30 72 Web: www.rafoldesalem.es E-mail: ajuntament@rafoldesalem.org

MONUMENTS Historic center The historic part of the municipality consists of streets with typical houses characteristic of Mediterranean architecture, houses of labriegos and potters, mainly decorated with forging balconies, worked wooden doors, artistic aldabas, devotional ceilings, sundials and roof overhangs adorned with painted ceramic bricks. The central point is made up of the Town Hall Square, where the town building stands. The tourist can start from there the tour to reach the most emblematic streets, streets in memory of the old potters, squares and streets that house gardening, religious images and valuable ancient pieces.

EL RÀFOL DE SALEM

Church of Our Lady of Angels A new building built between 1748-1760, after the Montesa earthquake, on the remains of the ancient Muslim mosque and the Christian temple of 1535. The current building is neoclassical in style and features a Latin cross floor plan. Inside, it retains a canvas of San Blas and San Francisco from the eighteenth century and a large display of religious goldsmithing. The last works have constituted a pictorial reform of the interior of the temple. Hermitage of San Blas A building originating in the fifteenth century erected following the discovery of the image of San Blas in 1430 and


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