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Wandering through the hinterland of Alicante I unexpectedly ended up in Novelda. Just outside the town I saw a church on a hill. When I got close, I noticed how special and different this church is. It seemed as if Gaudi had taken some time from his work on La Sagrada Familia cathedral in Barcelona, to give his modernist ideas to the construction of the Santa Maria Magdalena church. I now know that a Gaudi admirer designed it. It took him from 1914 to 1946 to build it. The decorations with large pebbles from the Vinalopo river and all kinds of other materials give it a fairytale look. As if nature, baroque architecture and the Middle Ages meet in an imaginative building.
There was another pleasant surprise in the church. A colossal marble organ. Unique in the world, I understand. Apparently there were marble mines here in the past. Well that was it again. Greetings from Novelda.
