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What to see and do in Santa Maria de Palautordera

What to see and do in Santa Maria de Palautordera (Vallès Oriental, Barcelona): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments

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What to see and do in Santa Maria de Palautordera

Santa Maria de Palautordera
Village
Santa Maria de Palautordera is a town in the Vallès Oriental comarca, in the Baix Montseny sub-comarca, situated in the valley of the Tordera River, at the foot of the Montseny massif, with 10,080 inhabitants. It lives off cereal, potato and vineyard farming, livestock, and paper, chemical and metallurgical industries. In the town center stands the Gothic parish church of Santa Maria, alongside modernist buildings such as the town hall, the work of the architect José Doménech. To the north of the municipality stands out the hermitage of the Remedy, in neoclassical baroque style, and over the Tordera River, which separates the municipality from Sant Celoni, the Pont Trencat is preserved, of medieval origin and recently restored.
Church of Santa Maria de Palautordera
Monument
The parish church of Santa Maria de Palautordera, in the Vallès Oriental, was built between 1562 and 1588 in late Gothic style. Its pointed-arch portal has clustered colonnettes and archivolts, two pinnacles, pilasters, cardina motifs and a finial, with an oculus above and a series of trilobed arches added in 1939 beneath the cornice; the apse is polygonal. The bell tower has three sections: the lower one, circular, comes from an old military tower, and the two upper ones are hexagonal, the last with six pointed-arch openings for the bells. The parish has been documented since the year 862; in 1936 elements of the church were destroyed, and in October 2016 a 1516 altarpiece by Joan Gascó was reinstated. Since 2010 it has been a Bien Cultural de Interés Local (a local-level heritage protection designation).