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Convent of the Company of Mary
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Other nearby places of interest are the Central Market, the Purchena Gate and the Civil War Shelters.
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It is Church is located between the convent and the school, respectively. The temple presents a historicist style inspired by medieval Romanesque and Gothic styles, although in some areas it also has classical elements . It consists of three naves, the tallest and widest central one covered with a barrel vault, and the lateral ones, covered with groin vaults on columns with metal shafts. lilic and neo-Romanesque capitals, all of them topped by an octagonal dome on squinches.The main façade is made up of large stone blocks withthree bodies, the slightly recessed sides formed on three floors, of which the upper one has a cornice with a frieze of blind trefoil arches and the central flared doorway with a hole that functions as an opening.
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Long description
The Convent of the Company of Mary was built between the years 1882 and 1885 by the architect Enrique López Rull following a previous project by Bishop José María Orberá and Carrión who wanted to create a free school for the city's disadvantaged children. At first, he intended to It was planned to build it in the humble area of Reducto - current Almedina Street - but finally it was chosen. the bourgeois area of the Rambla, booming during the 19th century, as a place to erect this church and school, currently remaining within the Ensanche de Almería area.
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