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The word "tufa" has two meanings, one: "porous stone" and other one "ass-driver combed". This second, of thistle, is the one that we estimate it corresponds to our population, that is to say, "place or town where there abound the tufas, where there are tufas".
MONUMENTS:
CHAPEL OF SAN JORGE
It was constructed in the first half of the S.XVI, since the references and allusions that exist in the ancient documents of the Parochial File of Villatobas, they are from the year 1547. Environment to this year diverse donations appear for the Chapel.
It was a wide building, of simple and popular quadrangular tracing, in coarse stone, tapial and revoked of plaster and lime, and with roof to four waters. Towards 1974-5, the Chapel was finding in a forward position the deterioration state, and no cult was already celebrated. At present, it is reconstructed in the same place where previous chapel of the S.XVI was finding it . The devotion could cause San Jorge in Villatobas since there was invoked in some places before any evil or catastrophe that could threaten the populations (epidenias, plagues or illnesses).
Style: | Epoch: First half of the S. XVI
CHAPEL OF SAN JOSE
In 1626 his existence is quoted across testamentary legacies. Although perhaps it does not end even close to 1647 in which San Jose Unripe grape Calatayud arranged in his testament 10.000 maravedis, for to help to cover the chapel. His ancient brotherhood received indulgences and blessings of the pontícifes Urbano VIII in 1634 and Pío VI in 1796. A simple reredos of the S preserves the Chapel. XVII, in which he is necessary to emphasize his altar table in the shape of console and a linen of the same epoch in the central top part, which the Huída represents to Egypt. Of plant rectángular, his architecture and artistic quality is more notable than that of the rest of small chapels that there was in Villatobas. It has vault of half a point with three arches fajones and fanlights. The entry door is of wood, with wrought nails, with lintel and shoes in carved wood.
Style: | Epoch: Beginning of the S. XVII
SAINT'S CHAPEL ANN
The antiquity of this chapel is testified in the Parochial File, where there stays steadfastness of which the Chapel of Santa Ann already existed in 1605. Of popular architecture, it had his stones walls, with three reinforcement buttresses. In this one Chapel the neighbors were coming to to say the flowers in May, the children were going to catechesis and to to come on eve of July 26 during the night bonfires were lighting them in honor of Santa Ann. The bricklayers it have come celebrating for ages like his boss.
For the years 1970-1975, the Chapel was finding in the very bad state of conservation, provoking his current ruin. At present, there is projected his reconstruction in the same place of his ancient one emplacement.
Style: Popular | Epoch: XVIIth century.
SANCTUM OF NAZARENE JESUS
It is a question of a building placed in the city center of Villatobas. In his interior emphasizes the reredos of the high altar and Jesus's image Nazarene, the latter size of the XVIIth century, ámbos missing persons in the year 1936. The current reredos was constructed in 1948, it is composed by three streets. The current image of Jesus Nazareno term of the Civil war was entrusted to , in 1939, it is a work of the Valencian sculptor Francisco Pablo. The plant of the chapel has form of Latin cross, the principal ship covers with barrel vault with fanlights, divided for five arches fajones that they support in cantilevers in the walls. cruccero it is covered with semispherical dome supported on drum in the one that there open to themselves hollows that they illuminate inside. The drum supports in turn on scallops. The Head rectángular is covered with vault vaida. The interior articulates by means of Corinthian pilasters in corners. The arms of the cruise are of square plant and they are covered also with semispherical domes. The walls are of masonry whitewashed. The ashlars of the corners in the exterior could be appreciated in the original state of the chapel, as well as the front that tries to recover, also constructed with ashlars.
Style: Baroque | Epoch: XVI
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