Parròquia Basílica de Santa Maria del Pi
In Parròquia Basílica de Santa Maria del Pi once stood a Gothic church whose origins reach back to 987, when a smaller Romanesque building stood outside Barcelona’s walls to the west. That later, much larger church—dedicated to the “Blessed Lady of the Pine Tree,” a title of the Virgin Mary—was most likely built between 1319 and 1391, and it opened on 17 June 1453. In 1379, Peter the Ceremonious began donations for a bell tower, and works continued under Bartomeu Mas, who also built the chapel de la Sang in 1486. The building repeatedly absorbed catastrophe: a major earthquake in 1428 damaged the façade, and during the bombings of 1714 in the War of the Spanish Succession, an ammunition explosion collapsed the presbytery and destroyed the main altarpiece and ornaments—yet the Virgin and other images were saved. …
AI-generated from open data and cross-checked, with review where noted. How we write narrations
🎧 Listen in WayWhisperOfficial website ↗
