Santa Maria de Palamós, Gothic church in Palamós, Spain.

Santa Maria de Palamós, also called Santa Maria del Mar, is a single-nave church with five bays, a polygonal apse and ribbed vaults, flanked by three side chapels on each side. Its walls are rendered and painted white except at the corners, where better-quality stone is left exposed. The square bell tower, topped by a pyramidal crown, reuses the former Torre del Consell.

Alfons III granted land for a chapel dedicated to Santa Maria in 1334, then dependent on the parish of Santa Eugènia de Vilarromà. It became an independent parish in 1428 and work on the present church began in 1439; Bishop Bernat de Pau granted indulgences to finish it in 1441. The building was damaged in the Ottoman attack of 1543 and by two English ships in 1742, and was repaired after the Civil War damage only in 1942.

The church is dedicated to Santa Maria and also called Santa Maria del Mar. The Capella Fonda, built in 1779, holds the parish treasure as a small sacred art museum in memory of mossèn Pau Camós, with a 16th-century monstrance and processional cross and two 17th-century silver images of the Mare de Déu del Roser and Sant Joan Baptista.

The building sits on elevated ground in central Palamós and is easily reached on foot from the harbor area. A daytime visit works best to see the carved stone details and interior light clearly.

The bell tower was built reusing the former Torre del Consell, the town council tower. It has two storeys with round arches on the south and north sides and twin openings on the others, topped by a pyramidal crown. The 16th-century late Gothic side portal is attributed to the Occitan master builder Tomàs Barça, active on the church between 1521 and 1525.