Embalse de Alcántara

Cristo del Humilladero

This late 15th century hermitage has a rectangular floor plan and a small portico. Its interior space is divided into a single nave, divided into two sections, with an octagonal vault. This vault is separated from the main chapel by a semicircular arch, supported by pilasters with a quadrangular base. In the chapel, the visitor can appreciate an attractive dome belonging to the Renaissance period.

Plaza de la Constitución

This square, which preserves great medieval remains, is one of the twelve largest in Spain, being declared a National Historic and Artistic Monument several decades ago.

It was built between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and has an area of approximately 4000 square meters. In its surroundings you can see several houses raised asoportaladas supported by granite columns and brick arches. On these rise the galleries with windows in the form of semicircular arches.

Convento Franciscano de San Antonio de Padua

The construction of this convent dates back to 1476 and is located approximately 600 meters from the village of Garrovillas de Alconétar.

In its interior houses a cloister dating from the sixteenth century and noted for its great sobriety and naturalness, pure Renaissance style. However, the church of the building is built in granite and houses a large ribbed vault that is underlined by an apse of polygonal shape in granite vault.

Iglesia de Santa María de la Consolación

This church in honor of Santa María de la Consolación was built around 1520, with a late Gothic style predominating.

The temple has a single nave and three access doors. The main one is composed of several semicircular arches, with ball archivolts. The north-facing door also has semicircular arches and molded archivolts, with a niche at the top in which you can see an image of Alabaster of the Virgin of the Snows, Gothic style.

Iglesia de San Pedro

The church, in Gothic style and built in granite masonry, was erected in the second half of the 15th century. The temple has a longitudinal plan and is divided into three naves, all of them separated by granite pilasters and with star-shaped ribbed vaults as a roof. The church culminates in a spectacular rectangular tower divided into three bodies separated by moldings.

Puente de Alconétar

This bridge was built over the Tagus River, very close to the mouth of its tributary, the Almonte River, and has a length of approximately 250 meters long. Its design in cushioned granite ashlar masonry on the outside and filled with lime mortar and pebbles, was in charge of the architect Lucio Vivo, around the first century A.D.

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Ermita de San Antón

This hermitage, in honor of San Antón, is located in the neighborhood of Cantarranas, very close to the local ponds. Recently they have decided to open the temple to the public, being in charge of a group of neighbors to open and close the temple every day. This is done in order to keep the hermitage alive and allow people to venerate San Antón at any time, as they have been doing since its opening.

Ermita de la Virgen de Altagracia

This sanctuary was built on a granite plain, an enclave known by the locals as the Villoluengo meadow. It is mainly Gothic in style, although it has some architectural elements of neoclassical style, such as the belfry, and modernist, such as the arcades.

Embalse de Alcántara

It is an artificial reservoir on the course of the Tagus River. Its dam was completed in 1969 and, at the time it was being built, it became the second largest reservoir in Europe. Its main function is to moderate and distribute a large part of the flow of the Tagus River.

Corral de Comedias

The Corral de Comedias was inaugurated in the early nineties, being erected on the site of the old butchers and bailiffs’ houses. It is a building of clear modernist style that imitates the Corral de Comedias of Almagro and stands out for being designed in the style of the Spanish Golden Century period. Today, the Corral de Comedias de Garrovillas de Alconétar is used for plays and public events.