Iglesia de Santanyí

Religious | Santanyí

The construction of this large temple lasted 25 years, from 1786 to 1811. The particularity is that if in many towns such a monumental construction entailed the elimination of the primitive oratory, in this case it was decided to preserve it and build the majestic building next to the historic one, on land with a cemetery. They also had to buy some houses. The old church is an architectural jewel, now known as the Chapel of Roser, with origins in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and added side (where the museum is located) in the sixteenth century, next to what was wall. The new temple was blessed by the rector Benet Vadell (a native of Petra), "the last direct relative of Beat Juníper Serra. Another curiosity of the new temple is that when it was blessed all its cost had already been collected, which shows the "interest" and "devotion" of the people.