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TOTANA

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Totana encompasses tourist sights
of extraordinary beauty and myriad
landscapes. This historic, attractive
and monumental town has
preserved stately homes from the
eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries and must-see
monuments, like the Church of
Santiago. Totana's considerable
architectural heritage is best
understood through a visit to the
site of La Bastida, the most
powerful city in continental Europe
during the Bronze Age, some
4,200 years ago, and a fortified
square comparable to the second
city of Troy.

It also features the enviable
Orchards, composed of
nineteenth century houses
surrounded by almond, orange
and lemon trees that accompany
you in your ascent to the La Santa
area, located in the natural enclave
of the Regional Park of Sierra
Espuña.

SHRINE OF SANTA EULALIA OF MÉRIDA, “LA SANTA (THE SAINT)”
The Shrine celebrated its Jubilee in Murciano lands were donated by technique dating from the
honour of Santa Eulalia in 2004, and is Alfonso X The Wise in 1257 to the seventeenth century and relate, in a
located seven kilometres from the Military Order of Santiago and to its very didactic way, the life of Christ and
town of Totana, where the image of master, Pelay Pérez Correa, a character miracles of the Saint.
Santa Eulalia of Mérida is linked to the city of Mérida. This building has some of the most
venerated, patron saint of the city The architectural composition and significant exponents of folk art in the
since 1644. This devotion goes beyond ochre colours of the facades of this entire Levant peninsula.
the municipality limits and extends to religious monument are typical of this At this site you can enjoy an
other parts of the Region of Murcia area of Espuña, affording it a exceptionally rich environment: the
and other areas where pilgrims and declaration of Cultural Interest. The Aleppo pine forest and a large variety
devotees come together in faith. The hermitage of a single nave was built in of native plants have created a
Knights of Santiago were 1595 and boasts an impressive charming area where you can easily
responsible for bring the devotion to Mudejar-coffered ceiling. The walls are relax and enjoy your natural
Santa Eulalia up to Totana. Many completely covered with tempering surroundings.