Art and goldsmithing in eight centuries of history of the Pitiusas parishes. The Diocesan Museum of Ibiza, which is accessed from inside the Cathedral of Santa Maria, occupies the sacristy and the chapter house of the temple. It was founded in 1965 and exhibits paintings, sculptures, ornaments and liturgical objects related to the history of the church in Ibiza and Formentera and its dioceses (13th-20th centuries). The museum, remodeled in 2006, also has a collection of traditional Ibicencan jewelry, with rosaries and carved crosses.
The earliest churches built on the island in the 14th century are characterised by the fact that they resemble fortresses due to the defensive function that they served. This is the case of the churches in Santa Eulàlia, Sant Antoni, Sant Jordi and Sant Miquel. The church in the town of Sant Joan de Labritja is dedicated to Sant Joan Baptista (Saint John the Baptist), and it was authorised to be built in 1726, as the churches in Sant Miquel and Santa Eulàlia were too far away for the residents of this area to reach. In 1732 building was completed, and it was a vicarage that depending on the Santa Maria parish in Ibiza. It was declared a parish in 1785.
Its construction was ordered by the first bishop of Ibiza, Manuel Abad y Lasierra, in 1785 and was inaugurated twelve years later, in 1797. Elegant and very well proportioned, the church of Sant Llorenç de Balàfia was inaugurated in 1797. The entrance porch has a single arch and the nave is composed of five bays under a barrel vault. The verticality of this church is its hallmark, as well as the dome over the presbytery, of the Gallonado type, that is to say, divided into segments.
The small chapel of Sant Ciriac, in Dalt Vila, is carved into the wall of the street leading up to the Cathedral. According to legend, it was built at the point where the Catalan troops penetrated the walled enclosure in 1235.
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