Gothic style, from transition to Renaissance. Built between 1509 and 1522. It contains altarpieces with Catalan paintings from the XVI century by Pere Serafí known as "Lo Grec" (The Greek), and Jaume Fontanet. The inside of the nave is finely proportioned and the presbytery and vault structures are very suitable for being painted and coverting this church into a jewel of modern art. The builders were Bartolomé Ruffi, senior and junior,and Pere Capvern, master builder and stonecutter from Girona. The work cost 3.000 Catalan pounds. Nine tables from the XVI century were salvaged from the 1936 Civil War fire, undoubtedly painted by Pere Capvern with the collaboration of Jaume Fontanet. According to experts, they represents "Stages in the life of Sant Romà the Monk".
In the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament, from the year 1916, and in the baptistry there are seven large paintings which were found in a loft of the bell tower where they had gone unnoticed for a long time. They represents scenes from the Passion of Christ. In some of these paintings Venetian influences are noticeable. It is not known who the author was or when they were painted although it could possibly have been at the end of the 1600s. As for modern art there is a stone image of the Madonna of Loreto and a wood carving of Crist, among others, both by the sculptor Monjo.
A slab on the façade remembers the names of rev. Bonaventura Leal Andreu and Martí Catalús Blanch, Lloret residents killed during the Spanish Cicil War. The parish celebrates the festival of Sant Antoni Abad on 17 January with the popular blessing f horses, the Holy Friday procession and the Corpus Festival. The church was created in Catalan gothic style and was equipped with fortifying elements ( a drawbridge, for example) and most certainly had only one nave at the beginning. The information on various altars and altarpieces indicates that other rooms, especially the side chapels, were built afterwards during the rest of the XVI and XVII centuries. In 1541, the reredos behind the high altar was commissioned by the council of the University of Lloret from the painters Pere Serafí "Lo Grec" and Jaume Fontanet and cost some 1300 pounds which were paid off in October 1559.
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