Sanctuary of Mare de Déu de Coaner
Coaner is a little village inside the municipality of Sant Mateu de Bages. It is found in the valley of the stream Coaner, a tributary of the Cardener, and, etymologically, it comes from the Latin Quovece Nigro.
There, we can find the whole cylindrical tower of a castle, the Romanesque-Lombard church and the Sanctuary of the Mare de Déu de Coaner (Sanctuary of the Madonna of Coaner).
The Sanctuary of the Mare de Déu de Coaner is a little church built in 1654 to perpetuate, according to tradition, the memory of the discovery of the Virgin by the stream, in the same spot.
The Virgin is a Romanesque carving of polychromatic wood, dating back to the 13th century.
The church has a rectangular plant with a small section attached to the right side and the graveyard on the left.
Inside, there is the 18th century Baroque altarpiece made by Segimon Pujol of Gurb in 1716. It is made of polychromatic and gilded wood, with five vertical sections, a predella, three bodies and an attic. It has a reticular structure and adapts itself to the apse-shaped chapel.
