EL CALVARI

This oratory is located at 216 metres above sea level.

The walkway up the mountain and to the chapel was built between 1852 and 1856. The project was promoted by Sebastià Serra, the parish's priest at that time. In 1853 they consecrated and placed the image of the saint, in 1855 they hung a bell and in 1856 they finished the chapel. A few years later, in 1862, it was declared as a public oratory and property of the diocese, and solemnly inaugurated.

The chapel is modestly built and decorated, and about 15 metres long. The single-nave building has a barrel vault. The façade is designed with two pilasters on both sides of a doorway with a lintel. You can see the clergyman Sebastià Serra's coat of arms on the façade. The façade also shows a small rose window and a bell tower, and it ends in a spire. On the right-hand side of the chapel there is a small room that was originally used as accommodation for the guards.

At present it is an oratory, consecrated to the holy Christ of the Calvary. The stairs and the paved path up to the chapel were built at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1983, at the initiative of the Crusaders of Divine Mercy of Felanitx and with the collaboration of a large part of the local population, both the path and the chapel were restored.

The most recent maintenance and repair works were carried out in 2010. With the installation of a range of street furniture, the area has been made available to the public. They also restored the fourteen Stations of the Cross alongside the path. They used a new photoceramic technique for the restoration of the present Stations. During this process, ceramic colours are applied to the tiles and fired in the kiln. Those reproductions were made by the Felanitx-born photographer Gabriel Bennassar.

The chapel is currently closed to the public. The ascent to the Calvary begins at the steps of the street Carrer d'es Call. There are wonderful views of Felanitx from the summit. The trail is about 1 km long.