Parish of Santa Ana

After the conquest of the city, Alfonso X himself, from a first population center, had arranged a village south of the fortress, opposite the port, which would be the origin of the suburb of the same name, where the church of Santa Ana is located. At first this church must have been fortified, since it was the first to be built outside the city walls after its reconquest, preserving the characteristic crenellated finials on the roofs of its terraces. The church must have been finished at the beginning of the 14th century, when the aforementioned inscription was placed. During the first half of the same century the tower was erected.

At the end of the 14th century the temple was rebuilt, probably deteriorated by the damage caused by the earthquake of 1355. In the fifteenth century the construction process continued, rising in the nave on the left, the so-called Chapel of Captain Monte Bernardo consisting of two sections covered with starred vaults. In the middle of the 16th century the Sacramental Chapel was erected, closer to the chancel and with a square floor plan, and at the beginning of the 17th century the Baptismal Chapel was built, also with a square floor plan and covered with a hemispherical vault, and in 1680 the Sacramental Chapel was also covered with a vault of the same type.

The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 seriously damaged the building, which was remodeled by the architect Pedro de Silva, at which time the image of the doorways and the chancel was significantly modified. Around 1920 the Gothic doorway of the left nave was restored, where a small tombstone from an old parish cemetery appears on the outside, and in 1972 it underwent a complete restoration carried out by the then architect and curator of the Alcázares, Rafael Manzano, in which he removed the Baroque interior decoration.