The square tower church hidden in a small valley

Sant Andreu de Porreres, located in Northern Catalonia, is a church with a lamentable state of conservation. Hidden among various added bodies that were built over time, the semicircular apse with cornice and frieze, supported by mouldings, is the most distinguishable Romanesque feature. The altar was reinforced with two added buttresses after the earthquakes of the 16th century, and the original bell tower was transformed into a square tower with double pitch roof.

The church, known as Porreres in 904 and the limit of a farm that bordered Sant Feliu del Bac in 146, was donated to Sant Pere de Besalú by Bishop Miró in 977. The first documented pastoral visit was carried out by Bishop Gascó de Moncada in 1329 who ordered a new roof to be added. In 1738, the church was elongated on the side of the presbytery, breaking the triumphal arch. A Romantic-era statue of Santa Maria was venerated in the church, potentially lost during the Spanish Civil War. The church functioned as a parish church until 1938.

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