Iglesia Matriz de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción
This church, the Iglesia Matriz de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción, sits in Agaete’s casco histórico and traces its religious role to the early phase of European settlement on the island. During the penetration of the European presence into Gayerte aborigen, the first historical devotion was to the Virgen de las Nieves, first placed inside the amurallado de la Torre—but that initial setup was defensive, not for worship. Running alongside that defensive development, the community’s first “proper” religious anchor took shape under the advocación de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción. The earliest notices of the church’s foundation fall between 1514 and 1515, recorded in the sinodales of Bishop Fernando Vázquez de Arce. …
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