The Church of Sant Romà is one of the most representative buildings in the town. It is located in the centre of Lloret de Mar, in the Plaça de l'Església. The building is in Gothic style, but its two side chapels are in the Art Nouveau style and use the trencadís technique.
The Church of Sant Romà is dedicated to the patron saint of Lloret de Mar, Saint Roman (in Catalan, Sant Romà), a deacon and martyr from Antioch, whose saint's day is celebrated on 18 November.
In the mid-15th century, plans began to build a new parish church closer to the sea, where the town's fishermen and sailors lived, on an esplanade known as Sa Carbonera.
It was built between 1509 and 1522 and was originally Gothic in style, with fortification elements and a single nave. The altarpiece of the main altar was commissioned in 1541 from the painters Pere Serafí and Jaume Fontanet. Later, in the 16th and 17th centuries, other outbuildings and side chapels were built.
In 1914, the Indianos financed the modernist reform of the church of Sant Romà, the work of the architect Bonaventura Conill i Montobbio, a descendant of the people of Lloret and a follower of the school of Antoni Gaudí. It is because of this that the church of Sant Romà reflects two periods of construction and architecture as different as the Gothic style and the Modernist style.
During the renovation, two side chapels were built, the Santísimo and the Baptismal chapels, one on each side of the presbytery, and the church was covered with mosaics using the Art Nouveau technique of trencadís, which consisted of joining fragments of ceramic tiles of uniform sizes with mortar.
During the Spanish Civil War, most of the modernist decoration, furniture, images and altarpieces of the parish were destroyed, but the structure managed to remain standing. After the war was over, a new, larger and more modern church was rebuilt to the appearance it has today.
The Church of Sant Romà is an example of heritage that reflects two very different periods of construction and architecture, Gothic and Modernist.
The façade consists of two rectangular doorways with vegetal decoration and a rather austere central doorway. The reliefs on the imposts of the archivolts show characters with boats and scenes from Genesis.
The Modernist chapels are polygonal, domed side chapels located on either side of the presbytery. They have five octagonal pinnacles decorated with ceramics, mosaics and trencadis.
The church's bell tower has a square floor plan and is crowned by a crenellated terrace and a four-sloped pointed roof. There are windows and a few small loopholes at the top.
The interior of the church has a heptagonal apse and a wide, elongated nave, and is plastered and painted white. The interiors of the cupola chapels, on the other hand, are plastered and painted blue and pink.
The church can be visited every day from 9:30h to 12:00h and from 16:00h to 19:30h. Masses are held on Saturdays at 19:00h (in Catalan) and on Sundays at 11:00h and 17:00h (in Catalan, Spanish, Latin and other languages).
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