Sant Martí de Montnegre, Parish church in Sant Celoni, Spain.
Sant Martí de Montnegre is a parish church in Sant Celoni with a straightforward plan featuring one central nave covered by a barrel vault and ending in a semicircular apse. A substantial belfry tower dominates the front facade, crowned with crenellations and a pyramidal roof that gives the building its distinctive silhouette.
Montnegre village is documented from 1022, when the church belonged to Montnegre Castle, seat of a jurisdiction covering Fuirosos, la Batllòria and Gualba. The castle was damaged in the 15th-century remença revolt, and the Gualba family abandoned it for the Casal dels Gualba in la Batllòria. Repairs are recorded in 1379; the bishop Gavino de Valladares found it newly built in 1776. Until 1867 la Batllòria depended on it, with Sant Cebrià de Fuirosos as suffragan.
The church serves as a gathering place for the village community and continues to host religious services and local celebrations today. It shows how a small settlement built its traditions around this building over the centuries.
The church sits at an elevated position 467 meters above sea level overlooking the village and is accessible on foot. Visitors should note that access depends on terrain conditions and opening hours may be limited to service times.
The belfry is a rectangular tower with four round-arched openings for bells, set above a plain cornice that divides its two sections. Another cornice runs above the openings, and above that sit crenellations in the Catalan style, topped by a pyramidal body. A bull's-eye window was built in 1610.
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