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Church of Santa Maria del Mar in Spain, Barcelona resort

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This church is located south of the Picasso Museum, on the Carrer de Montcada. This Gothic building was built between 1329 and 1389. This building is the second most important religious building in the city after the Cathedral. It is located where the old Roman necropolis used to be, in which, according to legend, Saint Eulalia is buried.

There is a rose window above the decorative door. Almost all of the stained glass windows in the church were created in the 15-17th centuries. In the chapel to the left of the door there is a black image of the Madonna. It is worth paying attention to the stone ornament located under the vaults. Above the main altar is the Coronation of the Holy Virgin.

On the main altar of the church stands a Gothic statue of the Madonna, and next to it - – model of a merchant ship of old times. Just below the altar is the entrance to the crypt.

To the right of the church, on a small platform, there is a memorial made in the form of an amphitheater. A dedication to those killed during the battle with Philip the Fifth in 1714 is carved into long polished stone walls.  

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