Capilla De La Caridad (Algeciras)
The Chapel of the Charity ( es, Capilla de la Caridad is a Roman Catholic chapel in Villa Nueva, Algeciras, Spain. History The Chapel of the Charity was built in 1768 on the Plaza Juan de Lima, attached to the old Charity Hospital. It has a single nave and a facade with a main door flanked by Doric pilasters. A plaque on the door reminds people that it was built by public subscription. During the eighteenth century the chapel was dedicated to the Virgen del Carmen, patron saint of seafarers, due to the proximity of the port at the time. During the assaults of 1931 this chapel was ransacked and although many of the more valuable items were hidden, most of the images were destroyed. References Churches in Algeciras Roman Catholic churches completed in 1768 18th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Italy 1768 establishments in Spain {{Cádiz-struct-stub ...
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Villa Nueva, Algeciras
A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became small farming compounds, which were increasingly fortified in Late Antiquity, sometimes transferred to the Church for reuse as a monastery. Then they gradually re-evolved through the Middle Ages into elegant upper-class country homes. In the Early Modern period, any comfortable detached house with a garden near a city or town was likely to be described as a villa; most survivals have now been engulfed by suburbia. In modern parlance, "villa" can refer to various types and sizes of residences, ranging from the suburban semi-detached double villa to, in some countries, especially around the Mediterranean, residences of above average size in the countryside. Roman Roman villas included: * the ''villa urbana'', a suburban or count ...
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