Iglesia de Sant Joan (Muro)

Religious | Muro

It was built between 1570 and 1611, according to the project of the master Sebastià Saura or Antoni Genovard. The main portal or portal de les dones (of the women) is of austere design, while the side portal or portal dels homes (of the men) shows a rich Baroque ornamentation, with reliefs of the Mare de Déu seated between St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, and at the ends the figures of St. Peter and St. Paul. The bell tower is very high, and is connected to the temple by a small bridge. The interior of the church is of Gothic typology: plant of a single nave with seven lateral chapels, polygonal apse and cover of seven sections of ribbed vault. The great main altarpiece is baroque, one of the most impressive examples of baroque altarpieces on the island. The sacristy, of rectangular plant, keeps a washbasin of 1761, the image of the Christ of the Descent, and a chalice and a paten of Gothic style, of the centuries XIV or XV.