Església de Sant Miquel de Cardona, Gothic church in Cardona, Spain

The Església de Sant Miquel de Cardona is a church building in Cardona with Gothic features that structure the interior. The building holds a central main nave alongside two side aisles and closes with a polygonal apse, while Gothic doorways and painted vault keystones define its appearance.

The church is documented from 1013, when it depended on the canonry of Sant Vicenç. In the 14th century it was rebuilt in Gothic style, probably begun in the previous century, and the new building was consecrated in 1397. A crypt was added in the 16th century to venerate the relics of the martyr saints Celdoni and Ermenter.

The church keeps the 15th-century baptismal font and the altarpiece of Saint Anne, the Virgin and Saint Amador, a polyptych of three streets by Pere Vall. The Master of the Anemic Figures painted the side panels now accompanying the central compartment of the altarpiece of the Holy Spirit. The image of the Virgin of Patronage, damaged in 1936 and later restored, is venerated here; one tradition holds it was imported from Marseille and installed in 1423.

The church stands in the old town of Cardona, in the Bages region. It has two doorways: one on the south side and a second Gothic portal with archivolts on the north side, worn by time. Inside, look up at the vault keystones, which keep traces of polychrome decoration.

Wall paintings from the 14th century that originally decorated the interior were preserved in fragments at the Diocesan Museum in Solsona. These fragments show scenes from the life of Saint Stephen and tell stories of the saint that visitors can see displayed elsewhere today.