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Nous pénétrons à l'intérieur par les pieds de la croix et nous passons sous l'arc en anse de panier qui soutient le chœur. Lorsque l'église fut inaugurée au culte, elle n'était pourvue que de l'autel du Saint Christ au centre et de deux autels latéraux, celui du Rosaire, et en face, celui de Saint Sébastien, remplacé plus tard par celui de Saint Roch.
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The church is entered through the foot of the cross, passing beneath the basket-handle arch supporting the choir. When opened to worship, the church only contained the altar of the Holy Christ in the centre, and two side altars, that of the Rosary and, across from it, that of Saint Sebastian, subsequently substituted for that of Saint Roch. The artistic feature of this church is the high altarpiece, work of the man from Gipuzkoa, Sebastián de Lekuona (Oiartzun), made around 1708. The images and paintings of the altarpiece deserve special attention. Presiding over the whole, in the centre, is a fine image of Saint John the Baptist by Felipe Arizmendi (Donostia-San Sebastián), who was also responsible for the sculptures of Saint Peter and Saint Paul standing to the sides of the central sculpture, slotted between lovely Solomonic columns. Looking upwards a little, in the centre we can see a painting representing the Visitation of Our Lady by the artist from Bilbao, A. Cuadra. Turning our eyes to either side of this central altarpiece we will see two oval pictures representing the Baptism of Jesus and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, to which Ugarte put the finishing touches in 1791.
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