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Basilica of Santa María

The Basilica of Santa María is the oldest church in Alicante, built in Valencian Gothic style between the 14th and 16th centuries on the site of the old main mosque. Its façade combines two different towers: the one on the right, from the 14th century and L-shaped, and the opposite one, rectangular and dating from 1713, alongside a Baroque doorway with a sculptural group by Juan Bautista Borja. Inside, with a single nave and side chapels between buttresses, visitors can see the gilded Rococo high altar from the 18th century, the 15th-century Gothic choir, the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception with an image by Esteve Bonet and the Baptism Chapel with a 16th-century white Carrara marble font attributed to the school of Michelangelo. A Gothic stone image of Saint Mary and the carving of the Santos Juanes by Rodrigo de Osona, both from the 15th century, are also preserved, along with incunabula.

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