Almazán - Ermita de Jesus

Almazán is a small town about 30 km south of Soria.

The city was probably founded by the Cordobesian Emir and Caliph Abd ar-Rahman III. (+ 961) founded and heavily fortified. In 1068, Almazán was conquered by the Christian army of Alfonso VI of León, but soon after was recovered for al-Ándalus. In 1128, it was repopulated by Alfonso I, although after his death in 1134, the town fell into Castilian hands and was granted by Alfonso VII of León to the bishops of Sigüenza.

Ermita de Jesús is a baroque hermitage from the beginning of the 17th century.

It sits on the site that used to be the old parish church of Santiago and it is assumed, that the architect Juan Antonio de Pimpinela, may have been an Italian because of the octagonal plan resembles baroque models from Italy.