The Ermita de San Antonio de Padua ("Chapel of St. Anthony of Padua") is a

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located on the slopes of

Monte Hacho Monte Hacho is a low mountain that overlooks the Spanish city of Ceuta, on the north coast of Africa. Monte Hacho is positioned on the Mediterranean coast at the Strait of Gibraltar opposite Gibraltar, and along with the Rock of Gibraltar is clai ...

Ceuta Ceuta (, , ; ar, سَبْتَة, Sabtah) is a Spanish autonomous city on the north coast of Africa. Bordered by Morocco, it lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of several Spanish territorie ...

, one of

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's cities in the North of Africa. It was originally built in the 17th century by the

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, but was extensively renovated and reconstructed in the 1960s. A festival is held at the hermitage every June 13 to mark Saint Anthony's Day.

References

*Hardy, P., Vorhees, M., and Edsall, H. (2005). ''Morocco.'' Footscray, VIC: Lonely Planet. Buildings and structures in Ceuta Portuguese colonial architecture in Spain {{Plazadesoberanía-stub