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SALEM Population: 435 hab. Municipal area: 8,6 km2 Altitude: 350 m. Demonym: salemer, salemera Town Hall Phone no.: 96 281 33 31 Web: www.salem.es E-mail: ajuntament@salem.es MONUMENTS Parish Church of St. Michael the Archangel The presbytery occupies the site of the old Islamic mosque, converted into a church in 1521, seat of vicarage in 1534 and parish seat in 1600. After the expulsion of the Moors in 1609, the repopulators dedicated it to Santa Maria del Rosal in 1611 and to St. Michael the Archangel in 1694. The Moorish building was replaced in the years 1720-1728 approximately, by a new presbytery, with the cruiser and the first two side chapels of the nave. In the mid18th century the bell tower was built at the foot of the nave. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the temple did not cease to be enriched with new ornaments, some of
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which came from outside. For example, the canvas of St. Thomas of Villanueva, which came from the convent of the Augustines of Xativa (June 26, 1784) or the Rococo altarpiece of San Vicente Ferrer, which the Marquises of BĂŠlgida -baroness of Salembrought to La Seu de Valencia, where they had retired it as obsolete (1790). The continuation of the church by the academic architect Fray Vicent Cuenca, director of the works of La Seu de Xativa, marked the completion of the nave (1816-1821), with the six side chapels, the austere base of adintelada door that we see now, and the buttresses that separate. Annexes to the church are the bell tower, the work of the mid-XVIII century, and the
