Church · Coracho
Basílica de Coracho
Today: Basílica paleocristiana de Coracho, Lucena
- Place
- Coracho (Lucena)
- Kind
- Church
- Built
- 6th to 7th century
- What remains
- Ruins
- Visiting
- Open to visit · In a museum
A three-aisled basilica with its apse to the west, founded in the 4th century and remodelled twice in this era: in the 6th century, which its article puts down to the Byzantine presence, the nave was raised and the apse made monumental, and in the 7th the nave was closed off from the aisles and a small baptistery or mausoleum was added. It is not where it was built: it came to light in 2003 in the works for the A-45 and between 2005 and 2008 it was taken down and rebuilt in the polígono de la Viñuela at Lucena, from its own stones, with the walls raised to 1.80 metres and copies of bases and shafts. What a visitor sees is therefore a museum reconstruction.