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La fachada principal de la iglesia de Sant Joan destaca por los colores blanco y amarilloPhoto: Xescu Prats -
Nave de la iglesia de Sant Joan, al norte de IbizaPhoto: Xescu Prats -
Capilla honda de la iglesia de Sant Joan de LabritjaPhoto: Xescu Prats -
Escalera del coro de la iglesia de Sant JoanPhoto: Xescu Prats -
Porche anexo a la iglesia de Sant JoanPhoto: Xescu Prats -
Cúpula de la capilla honda de la iglesia de Sant JoanPhoto: Xescu Prats
The church of Sant Joan was built in the eighteenth century and is an exception in the architecture of temples Pitiusan because it look like the temples in the peninsula.
The church is attached to a chapel built a few years earlier, in 1720, on land donated by Antoni Marí to attract more farmers to work the land because until that moment, to attend religious services, they moved through tortuous paths to Santa Eulalia or Sant Miquel.
Altar mayor de la iglesia de Sant Joan, en Ibiza
Photo: Xescu Prats
When the ecclesiastic hierarchy decided to build the new temple, a few years later, the neighbors refused to be built in another place where the chapel was Mila. The solution was not the most pleasing to the authorities, but residents, who were those who would build the church with his own hands, imposed their criteria. The temple was completed in 1770 and five years later, with the creation of the Diocese of Ibiza and the arrival of the first bishop, Manuel Abad y Lasierra, became parish.
