The popularly known "Capillita de Europa" (English: Small Chapel of Europe) is considered as the foundational element of the modern city of Algeciras.

[citation needed] In 1704, following the Capture of Gibraltar by an Anglo-Dutch fleet on behalf of the Archduke Charles, claimant to the Spanish throne, almost all the population left the town.

However, with the passage of the time, the provisional settlement became the seed of a new town, beginning in this way the modern history of Algeciras after his destruction in 1379.

The Facade possesses two bodies and belfry, on the door a niche exists with an image of St. Bernard, patron saint of the city, placed in recent times.

.. twelve silver lamps, candlesticks, lecterns, crowns, gems and consecrated vessels, the clothes of many families, who had withdrawn there, and when there was nothing else to rob, they broke off the head of the statue which is so venerated in Spain and the child Jesus and threw it among the stones.