The Chapels of Pineda de Mar

Pineda has several chapels dispersedin its entire municipal area, built by the people of Pineda throughout the centuries as centres of popular devotion, and they constitute as a whole, a very valuable historical legacy.

Looking down to the town from a hill, near Santa Susanna, stands the chapel of the "Mare de Déu de Gràcia" (God's Mother of Grace). It was built by the initiative of a group of sailors in 1715. It's a rectangular enclosure, with a porch in front of the door and crowned with a small bell gable. It was pillaged and set alight in 1936 and again in 1973. In august 1981, by initiative of Pineda's rector, Mosen Ignasi Forcano, it was restored and the inside covered with an allegorical mosaic about the sea and the mountains, workmanship of Josep Perpiñà. The same artist also crafted the image of the Virgin on the presbytery.

Within the urban area there is the chapel of Sant Antoni, (St. Anthony), located at the end of the street of the same name. Built around the end of the XVIII century, the enclosure is rectangular, with a round façade topped with a bell gable. It preserves a baroque carved altar and a font.

 

In the vicinity of "Mas Castellar" stands the small chapel of Sant Jaume (St. James), built in the XIX century, also raised on a rectangular base, with portal with lintel and stone jambs.

Al peu de Montpalau, prop de can Martorell, la capella de Sant Rafael, modernament restaurada, és obra del 1908, segons assenyala una pedra de l'entrada. Destaca el portal adovellat, de pedra de gran qualitat.

 

Capelles més antigues, de les quals només es conserven alguns vestigis, són la de Sant Andreu, romànica, esmentada el 1076, i la del castell de Montpalau, dedicada a Sant Miquel, que només conserva els fonaments.