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venerated image. This church corresponded to the apse of the present church. The remainder was part of an expansion of the structure with a nave with four side altars in 1827. Further restorations and the elaborate iron gate was added in 1927. The interior has few decorations except for a few paintings, including a depiction of
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Originally, the fresco of the virgin was located in a small chapel lower down in the valley, hence the name. Tradition holds that circa 1750, a boulder from the mountain wrecked that small chapel. It was decided to build a new church, in a more protected spot higher on the mountain, to shelter the
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