The Hermitage of Torrox has its first historical reference in 1627, according to the historian Purificaci\u00f3n Ruiz Garc\u00eda, and was built thanks to the alms of the Catholic faithful. In 1646, the Municipal Council asked the Minim friars to establish a convent, which was established in 1670 as a hospice and finally in 1710 as the \"Convento torroxensis Madonna della Neve\".<\/p>\n
The building, located on a viewpoint at the entrance to the village, was a former convent of the Order of St. Francis with a church with a Latin cross floor plan, with an outstanding framework decorated with rosettes and a Plateresque altarpiece on the main altar. During the Disentailment of 1836, the building was expropriated and passed into private hands, and was later used as a warehouse.<\/p>\n
Nowadays, the building is used for cultural purposes, while the Hermitage is still active for worship, housing the images of Our Lady of the Snows and San Roque, patron saints of Torrox. Near the Hermitage is the \"Puente de las \u00c1nimas\" (Bridge of Souls), linked to an ancient Roman road. The Hermitage is open on Saturday afternoons for mass and is located in Almedina Street.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2591,"template":"","class_list":["post-2590","que-hacer","type-que-hacer","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/que-hacer\/2590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/que-hacer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/que-hacer"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turismoaxarquiacostadelsol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}