Sant Carles' village church is a striking 18th-century building, with an impressive arcaded entrance porch and a simple interior with a single nave. Today's peaceful scene belies a traumatic past, for in 1936, during the Spanish Civil War, Republican forces hung both the village priest and his father from the carob tree (which still stands outside the church).
The Republicans and Catholic Church were on separate sides during the war, and in author Elliot Paul's account of the incident, he attests that the father and son were killed after taking shots at Republican troops from the belfry.
