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Parish Church Of The Transfiguration |
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The present church is Gothic with a single nave with a vaulted transept. In 1573 work began on the new building destined to replace the old parish church.
The reredos was finished at the beginning of the 17th century, but not all the vaulting was competed until the start of the 19th century, in 1816 to be precise. The bell tower of the church dates from the 17th century and is 25 metres high. The church has two main doors. The side door, or men's door, was built in the 18th century but the outer part remained unfinished. The organ was built above the interior of this door in 1850. The main portal, or women's door, which opens out onto the viewing platform, is, together with the West Front, the most recent addition to the church, dating as it does from the end of the 19th century. This door, the grander of the two, is in the shape of a lancet arch with archivolts. The front was designed by B. Ferrà. Eclectic in style, it shows some influences of the modernism of the time. Over the door, there is a rose window of quite considerable dimensions. Outside, on each side of the church the roofed over buttresses support the vaulting. There are six round arches along the sides of these covered spaces, which are known as galleries. Inside the church, on either side of the nave there are fourteen chapels, among which the most interesting is the Roser Chapel, which is the largest and has a baroque retable dating from the 17th century. Inside there are four small chapels with plateresque style retables. In the apse the main altar boasts a retable which shows various scenes of the Transfiguration and substituted the old baroque retable in 1906. The great stained glass windows, which illuminate the interior, also date from the beginning of the 20th century when the church underwent large scale reforms and restoration. The windows were donated by wealthy Artà families, some of whom had made their fortune in South America. The interior stone cladding of the roof was also carried out at that time (1922). To the rear of the apse, as an annexe to the main building, is the sacristy, with the parish archives and the rectory.
• Picture gallery for Parish Church Of The Transfiguration
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