Ermita de Jesús Nazareno

In Archidona, devotion to the Nazarene used to take place in a chapel-hospital on a site now shared by the Ermita de Jesús Nazareno and what used to be the Colegio de Escolapios, which is where the Hospital de la Sangre had stood since the 16th century.

The chapel at the end of the17th and beginning of the 18th century, and was ceded to the Escolapios some time after they became established in the city. The building is a single nave church with a barrel vault. The main chapel is covered with a vault resting on pendentives decorated with plasterwork.

The chapel is divided into a number of altars and altarpieces, where the dress images are located as well as other images of differing significance from the 18th century. The Main Altarpiece is in the eighteenth century style, white with gold, columns and cornice which date it to the second half of the 18th century. This altar is devoted to the beautiful image of the Nazarene, from the 16th century, and attributed to the school of Pablo de Rojas, it is of extraordinary quality. The difficult and unstable posture is in the Mannerism style of the 16th and early 17th centuries. This is one of the images receiving most devotion in the town and is the Patron Saint, together with the Virgen del Amor y de la Sangre, an anonymous 17th century creation, which has its station for the Easter Thursday penitence.

The Expiración altar hosts the image of Crucified Christ, from the 17th century, which takes part in the procession with an image of the Magdalena.