The Basilica of Our Lady of the Forsaken is a Baroque building, dating from the 17th Century. Above the altar is the statue of the patroness of the city, Virgen de las Desamparados. She represents a medieval brotherhood that cared for the insane and disabled, and buried the dead left in the street. On the second Sunday in May her effigy is carried from the Basilica to the Cathedral, and is honoured on her return with displays of rose petals.
