Marian devotion
Mare de Déu de la Font de l’Avellà
Cabanes Sanctuary (Castellón)
In a place of fountains and hazelnuts, the shrine of the Font de l'Avellà, in Cabanes, is home to a local Marian devotion with traditional Romeria.
Origin and history
The shrine of the Mare de Déu de la Font de l'Avellà is located in a natural place of fountains and hazelnuts at the end of Cabans, and is a center of marian, communal devotion with traditional Romeria.
The advocation, linked to the "font" of the place, maintains a popular piety rooted in the region. The accessible sources do not detail a precise chronology or canonical coronation.
Formal patronage, own party and canonical coronation: they are not safely recorded in the sources.
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