Sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
Almansa is built at the foot of a white limestone crag, which is surmounted by a Moorish castle, and rises abruptly in the midst of a fertile and irrigated plain.
The exterior of the choir, with its four radiating chapels, its jutting cornices supported by modillions and columns with carved capitals, and its mosaic decoration of black and white stones, is the most interesting part of the exterior The rest of the church comprises a narthex surmounted by a tower, three naves and a transept, over which rises another tower.
It rises on the north side of the Winterberg in the Sauerland, at a height of about 2000 ft.
The An pass, an important trade route, rises to a height of 4664 ft.
