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Parish Church of Sant Joan Baptista, Valls

Valls, Alt Camp, Tarragona

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Parish Church of Sant Joan Baptista, Valls

Monument · Valls, Alt Camp, Tarragona

Image of Valls, not of the place itself.

The main church of Valls, starting point of the Festa Major de Sant Joan, built where the parish of Sant Joan la Major once stood, whose first documentary mention dates from 1192. With a single nave of eight bays and seven chapels on each side, it measures 63 metres long and 16 wide, with a bell tower over seventy metres high built of white stone from Roda de Berà. The plain main façade opens with a large Gothic rose window with a polylobed central oculus bearing the coat of arms of Valls, and the interior preserves Gothic stained glass, ribbed vaults with historiated keystones and works by the Valls-born sculptor Lluís Bonifàs i Massó, among them the baroque image of the Mare de Déu de la Solitud, from 1755, and the group of the Verge de la Pietat and the Crist difunt, carved between 1776 and 1781.

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