page_title: Lorca, Spain
section_title: Other monuments
hierarchical_section_title: Lorca, Spain / Notable landmarks / Other monuments
caption_attribution_description: Español: Palacio de los Condes de San Julián
context_page_description: Lorca is a municipality and city in the autonomous community of the Region of Murcia in southeastern Spain, 58 kilometres southwest of the city of Murcia. The municipality had a population of 94,404 in 2019, up from the 2001 census total of 77,477. Lorca is the municipality with the second largest surface area in Spain, 1,675.21 km², after Cáceres. The city is home to Lorca Castle and the Collegiate church dedicated to St. Patrick.
  In the Middle Ages Lorca was the frontier town between Christian and Muslim Spain. Even earlier to that during the Roman period it was ancient Ilura or Heliocroca of the Romans.
  The city was seriously damaged by a magnitude 5.1 earthquake on 11 May 2011, killing at least nine people. Due to a shallow hypocenter, the earthquake was much more destructive than usual for earthquakes with similar magnitude.
context_section_description: Lorca is studded with ancient monuments built in baroque architecture, Roman villas, palaces, unique works of art.
  In the central part of the town, La Casa de Guevara is one of the ancient baroque buildings built between 16th and 18th centuries by the Guevara family. Another historical monument is the Iglesia de San Mateo, which has an impressive vaulted interior.
  A Roman Milepost of 10 BC of Emperor Augustus period over which a statue of San Vincente erected in the 15th century is an important landmark on the Columnia Milenaria." It is located on the located on the Calle de la Corredera
  Lorca City Hall, built in the 17th–18th centuries, initially as a prison
  Medieval walls and gate or porch of San Antonio (13th-early 14th centuries) of Arabic origin was the main entrance gate then.
  Monumental complex of Santo Domingo (16th–18th centuries), formed by the namesake church, the Capilla del Rosario and remains of a convent's cloister.
  Iglesia de San Francisco (Lorca) (1561–1735), also known as the temple of San Francisco, is a national monument. It was first built by the Franciscan Order in the middle of the 16th century which was later totally rebuilt in the 17th century. It has many baroque altar pieces made by Ginés López in 1694. In the 18th century, Jerónimo Caballero added two high altarpieces of the transept that are dedicated to the Saint Antonio and to Vera Cruz and to the Blood of Christ. In 1941, the 'Virgin de los Dolores' altarpiece made by José Capuz was added.
  Palace of the counts of San Julián, in Baroque-Neomudéjar style (17th century)
  Huerto Ruano Palace, an urban villa from the 19th century
  Casa del Corregidor, house built in the 18th century
  Pósito de los Panaderos, granary house, built in the 16th century
  Columna Miliaria, Roman structure
  Convento Virgen de las Huertas, Franciscan convent destroyed during a raid in 1653 and rebuilt
  Convento de las Mercedarias (16th century)
  Palacio de Guevara (17th–18th century)
  Antiguo Convento de la Merced
  Antiguo Colegio de la Purísima (18th century), now housing the Conservatorio de Música Narciso Yepes.
  Iglesia del Carmen, 18th-century church
  Iglesia de San Cristóbal (17th–18th century).
  Iglesia de San Diego (17th century).
  Iglesia de San Mateo (18th–19th century).
  Casino Artístico, Andalusian-style building, designed by Manuel Martínez Lorca.
  Teatro Guerra is the oldest theatre in the Murcia Region, inaugurated in 1861.
  Cámara Agrícola (early twentieth century), Art Nouveau building, unusual in this part of the Region of Murcia, designed by Mario Spottorno,
  Puente de Piedra (19th century), bridge
  Puente de la Torta (1910), bridge built in 1910 from concrete
  Plaza de Toros (1892).
caption: San Julián
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