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Church of the Virgen de Gracia
The church was built in 1489 following the vow made by the people of Puertollano during the illness that affected the town in 1486. It has a single nave and houses the patron saint of Puertollano, the Virgen de Gracia, whose feast day is celebrated on 8 September. on 8th September. It is built in the "Puerto Llano", the place that gave rise to the name of the town, as it is located in a flat port between two mountain ranges, that of Puertollano and that of Calatrava. The church has a single nave with a dome at the transept. The building is made of stone, measures 40 metres long by 7 metres wide, and was surrounded at the beginning of the 20th century by an iron fence that guarded the sacred precinct. Over the over the centuries it has undergone many modifications. It was burnt down in 1936 and rebuilt in 1940. At the end of the Civil War, in which the old wooden altarpiece was destroyed, a plaster one was made (a copy of the previous wooden one), with three aisles and three sections, highlighting the four slender Solomonic columns. The image of the Virgin of Grace was acquired in 1939 and is the work of the Sevillian sculptor Antonio Castillo Lastrucci, to which the hands and the Child from the image destroyed during the civil war were added.
