From the 29th August through to the 9th Sepember there is a very important fiesta taking place in Javea . It is Patronales Mare de Deu de Loreto .

The origins of the Virgen de Loreto is of Andalucian origin . Sailors from andalucia called in at Javea fleeing the Moors . They stayed and married local women .They honored their virgin by building her a shrine from the wood of their boats .

In the mid twentieth century fishermen got caught in a very fierce storm and prayed to the Virgin , promising to build her a church if they were saved . They were saved and the fishermen took the Virgen de Loreto as theirs .

The church was not built until 1962 , when they had acquired enough money .

The roof of the church has the design of the bottom of a fishing boat.

Javea Property