The Town dates from 1578. A resident Priest was assigned to it in 1586. A fire in 1612 destroyed the town and its first church. Shortly afterwards, the present Church was constructed. Its frontispiece and the belfry were built by Bartolome Palatino, of Paete, between 1850 and 1853.
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