Ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Reyes

Ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Reyes stands in Spain, with an east-facing stone façade above a short flight of steps. A broad lintelled doorway anchors the front. Above it, a small stained-glass niche lights the choir, while a single-arched bell gable completes the low silhouette.

The hermitage occupies the site of a San Marcos chapel raised around 1526. Timber from La Palma formed its carved ceiling in 1527. Fire and looting during the pirate attack of 1599 destroyed that first building. Seventeenth-century reconstruction, supported by Captain Rodrigo de León, Count of La Vega Grande, gave the church its Marian dedication around 1610. A later ruin led to restoration in 1940, and the religious community caring for it joined the teaching complex in 1927.

Inside, one nave carries a carved artesonado beneath a pitched roof, with a wooden screen separating the 1927 choir. Blue polychromed stone retables hold San Marcos and Saint Augustine opposite each other. The main altar frames Our Lady of the Kings in a gilded stone niche with twisted columns. Her present dressing image dates from 1794, while the Child in her arms comes from sculptor Luján Pérez. Two large apse canvases show the Adoration of the Magi and Cristóbal Hernández Quintana’s Adoration of the Shepherds.