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Church of el Sagrat Cor de Vistabella

la Secuita, Tarragonès, Tarragona

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Church of el Sagrat Cor de Vistabella

Monument · la Secuita, Tarragonès, Tarragona

The church of the Sagrat Cor is a modernist temple in Vistabella, in the municipality of la Secuita, built in 1923 by Josep Maria Jujol at the commission of 1917 by the residents, who wanted a parish church of their own and built it themselves. Jujol was not limited to the architecture: he also designed the decorative elements, paintings, doors, lamps and grilles. The temple has a square plan with a single nave set diagonally, with the altar at one end and the porch at the other, and the masonry walls are covered by a Catalan vault over two parabolic brick arches. The paintings of the apse, destroyed in the Civil War, were repainted by Jujol's daughter. Declared Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection) in 2011, it carries a damp problem worsened in 2009 when the square was redeveloped.

Photo: Jordi Gili (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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