The Colegiata de San Patricio is the most important church in Lorca and an architectural anthology of the Spanish Renaissance and Baroque. Construction began in 1533 and continued for nearly two centuries, so the building blends a Plateresque main portal, a Renaissance interior, and a heavily Baroque facade on the western front.
The interior is unusually bright and well-proportioned, with a high vaulted nave and a remarkable set of polychrome wooden retables. The 2011 earthquake damaged the building badly and the restoration has been long, but most of the major spaces are now back in use. Sits right on the Plaza de España.