Santa María del Mar

Today: Basílica de Santa María del Mar, Barcelona

Place: Barcelona
Kind: Church
Built: c. 1496 to 1834
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

The great Gothic church of the Ribera, built from 1329 to 1383 with the money and labour of the parishioners of the quarter. From these years date the west tower, finished in 1496, and the chapel of the Blessed Sacrament beside the apse, which the sources place in 1790 or in 1833 to 1834. The Baroque high altar, inaugurated in 1783, and almost all the decoration burned in 1936.

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