San Felices de Los Gallegos has a long religious tradition that is reflected in the many shrines that had throughout its history: Rocamador, La Merced, Santa Ana, Santa Lucia, Saint Albin, Santa Barbara, Remedios, San Sebastian, San Anton, San Felix, San Gregorio ... We know of its existence for a number of documentary references. still today in all celebrations and festivities. The result of this tradition are numerous architectural sites dedicated to the cult, including the different chapels, highlighting the Hermitage of Our Lady of the Rosary and the Hermitage of Jesus of Nazareth. In one of the main entrances of the village is the oldest and most widely religious devotion, the Hermitage of Jesús of Nazareth, dating from the sixteenth century and built on the old Hermitage of Santa Vera Cruz. Hermitage of a rectangular single nave and buttresses on the sides, the walls are of granite masonry. The access is sheltered under a large courtyard with arches and vaults. Inside, the image of Jesus of Nazareth stands out for its amazing reality. Appear on the cover shields with the emblems of the Vera Cruz and the Nazarene. The festivities of Santa Cruz, traditionally celebrated the first weekend of May, welcome the pilgrims every year, even from neighboring Portugal. On one side lies the cemetery of San Felices. Within the village the Hermitage of Nuestra Señora del Rosario, dating from the eighteenth century and founded under the patronage of Nuestra Señora de la Luz. It has a single nave, with a plant in a Latin cross and rectangular apse and arms. The cruise is covered with a circular dome on scallops topped with a small flashlight. The belfry is situated on the main facade, like a shot of a neoclassical pediment. The whole church is plastered in rough cement, except for the main facade which is of stalls.The access cover stones and a lintel molding carved with neoclassical forms.



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Civilian buildings in San Felices are of great importance, antiquity and preservation wise. Near one of the main entrances of the village we find La Alhóndiga, an old barn of the Dukes of Alba and now the House of Culture, which was built in 1587 by Rodrigo de La Gandara and Sebastian Morgado, built up with well squared granite ashlar. Right in the main square there are two worthy representations of civil buildings, the Town Hall, built in the sixteenth century, its facade is supported by seven monolithic columns without bases and capitals in the lateral gorges in the manner of shoes. Its second body shows four large balconies with stone frame moldings. The interior of the building also houses the jail, with benches, a fireplace and a latrine. An inscription inside reads "Carolus IV/1791" indicating the time of completion of the work. The contract was signed in June 1790 with architect Jose Francisco Pereira and two other colleagues who followed the entire plan and conditions given again by Manuel Martin. Opposite the Town Hall, on the other side of the square we can admire the Casa de los Mayorazgos (the House of Entailment), built in the sixteenth century, though their coats of arms have been placed at a later time. Finally, we should mention several houses of hewn stone facades located on the west side of the square, with beautiful wooden balconies adorned with latticework, dated the first half of the XVI century and, finally, the House of the Lords of Ron, among others. Other works already disappeared, of great importance at the time are the hospital and chapel of Rocamador whose origin dated back to XV century, and the hospital and chapel of La Merced, founded on the houses donated by clergyman Pedro del Corral in 1567 . One can enter the building, still preserved, through an arch of large segments of the late sixteenth century. Shortly after it was named as new hospital. During the War of Succession became a military hospital and as such it is known.