The Governing Council approved the declaration as Cultural Interest (BIC), the category of monument, the Convent and Shrine of Virgen de las Huertas Lorca.
According to legend transmitted by the Franciscan Order, it is the first Christian church in Lorca, after the Reconquista.
The first signs were erected in the middle of the garden and outside the fortress that was the city in the thirteenth century, and was dedicated to Santa María de las Huertas.
Originally a small chapel, but it was a place of pilgrimage of the Spanish troops and sacred place where they deposited their banners and flags.
Over the centuries, left in the care of the sanctuary and adjacent Franciscan monastery and its monks, a baroque church was built, whose murals are considered of great artistic value.
Over time I began to incorporate different elements, a process that leads to the twentieth century.
The earthquake occurred in 2011 in Lorca seriously affected this monument, one of the best examples of monastic architecture of Spain, and now is being completely renovated.
Source: CARM