Countries<Spain<Comunidad Valenciana<Carlet< Ermita de San Bernardo

Ermita de San Bernardo(Carlet)

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The central space is covered with a graceful tiled dome on a drum. The drum, which is also heptagonal, has circular windows. The body surrounding the central space has a high floor, on which balconies open.

The building can be described as a centralised temple with tribunes and a double floor.
Image of the entrance to the chapel of San Bernardo, in Carlet, taken in 1967.

It was built on the site where tradition says that the palace of the Moorish king of Carlet, his father, and later of his other brother, who martyred and murdered Bernat and his sisters, Maria and Gracia, for having converted to Christianity, once stood.

The Hermitage was located in a beautiful spot with carob trees, now replaced with irrigated crops such as orange and peach trees. It had a beautiful pine grove that was destroyed by the wind, but was later planted with mulberry trees that provide good shade in summer. The village celebrates an annual pilgrimage on 23 July in honour of its patron saint. The building itself is preceded by two semicircular benches that mark a small square. At one end there is a well and at the other is the entrance to the hermit's house.

Cavanilles refers to the uninhabited village of Pintarafes (sic) as the place where San Bernardo was born, but he is wrong in saying that this place is located between Carlet and Benimodo, which would be to the west-southwest, and not where it is actually located, which is to the west-northwest, near the Camí de Xátiva, which is a very ancient road largely coinciding with the Via Augusta of the Roman Empire located between Catadau and Alberique, without passing through Carlet, Benimodo, Alcudia or other towns founded later. The exception is Alberique, although it is likely that, being a village founded by the Arabs, it corresponds to the location of a Roman settlement.

The chapel of San Bernardo Mártir (Sant Bernat) in the municipality of Carlet (Province of Valencia, Spain), is located on the Camino de Sant Bernat and in the uninhabited village of Pintarrafes (or Pintarrafecs).

Image of Ermita de San Bernardo