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Church of Sant Vicenç de Montalt

Sant Vicenç de Montalt, Maresme, Barcelona

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Church of Sant Vicenç de Montalt

Monument · Sant Vicenç de Montalt, Maresme, Barcelona

Gothic church of Sant Vicenç de Montalt, in the Maresme, included in Catalonia's Inventory of Architectural Heritage. It replaced an earlier church, previously dedicated to Caldes or to Llavaneres, when the parish became independent in the late 16th century: work began in 1591, under master builder Dionís Torres de Calella, in a late Gothic style still common at the time. It has a single nave, with a square bell tower, and retains defensive elements on the facade, with the corbels of the machicolation that once protected the portal; the portal, from 1598, is Renaissance, the work of Pierre Balquer. Its altarpieces, both Renaissance and Baroque, including one by Agustí Pujol from 1616-1618, burned along with other art objects in 1936; in 1886 a Chapel of the Sacrament was added.

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