About Nuestra Señora de Montserrat
The church of Our Lady of Montserrat is located in San Andrés y Sauces, was erected in 1513 with the aim of attending to the spiritual needs of the owners and workers of the sugar that was founded by Marcos Roberto de Montserrat, personality that was natural of Tarragona. He was in charge of carrying out the works for the rise of the water.
The temple of Our Lady of Montserrat was not always kept like this, in the 70s it was demolished at the end of the sixties and it was rebuilt so in April 1968, Our Lady's Day Señora de Montserrat was inaugurated. The church has three naves, with an apse, the wood paneling of tea and marble flooring, has pieces of undoubted value, one of the most remarkable is the flamenco table in which the virgin of the mountain is represented, the Virgin of Montserrat.
The work of the flamenco tabla was commissioned to Flanders by owners of the so-called Hacienda de Los Señores or Inheritance of the Catalans. This element has been exposed for decades in different places of the population until finally it was placed in the temple in honor of the Virgin of Montserrat.
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