Mare de Déu del Carme (Porto Cristo)

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Mare de Déu del Carme church
Church interior

Mare de Déu del Carme is a Roman Catholic church in Porto Cristo on the Spanish Mediterranean island of Mallorca .

location

It is located in the center of the town of Porto Cristo, which belongs to the city of Manacor, at Plaça del Carme 17 .

Architecture and history

The first church was built between May 10th and the beginning of July 1890. In 1914 a Stations of the Cross and a small organ were added. In the following time the church was expanded several times. In its present form it was consecrated in August 1949.

It is a single - nave neo-Romanesque basilica with side chapels. A slender church tower rises on the northwest corner. The interior of the church is spanned by a slightly pointed barrel vault.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susanne Lipps, Oliver Breda: Mallorca . DuMont Reiseverlag Ostfildern, ISBN 978-3-7701-7634-2 , page 328.

Coordinates: 39 ° 32 ′ 33.8 "  N , 3 ° 20 ′ 4"  E