Ibiza is a wonderful setting for any celebration, such as, for example, an wedding. Not surprisingly, many celebrities have flocked to the white island to seal their love. Celebrities have sometimes chosen to get married in agritourisms, such as Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender, in La Granja (Sant Antoni) or in five star hotelsas the president of UD Ibiza, Amadeo Salvo and Pachi Viñoles, who got married a few days ago at Six Senses (Sant Joan).
But there is a temple in Ibiza that several familiar faces have chosen to tie the knot. The recently deceased Caritina Goyanes was married in this church on July 26, 2008, to Antonio Matos. The well-known model Vittoria Ceretti, of current events due to her relationship with actor Leonardo DiCaprio , got married on June 1, 2020 with dj Matteo Milleri in this same place. Last year, on September 25, the ex-football player and president of Real Valladolid, Ronaldo Nazàrio , said “I do” to Celina Looks at this church. This weekend, the chef Rafa Zafra has walked down the aisle with Helena Roig in this temple, which is none other than the church of es Cubells, in Sant Josep. Its location allows spectacular views of the sea. In addition, it is a parish with few neighbors and few houses nearby.
History of the temple
The origins of this church go back to the year 1855, when the Carmelite monk exclaustrated the Father Francesc Palau y Quer established himself in this parish and asked Rome for the grace of a public oratory, considering that its inhabitants were very far from the nearest parish: that of Sant Josep. Rome’s response was limited to the concession of a private oratory in the same house, which would be inaugurated in 1864, according to the website of the City Council of Sant Josep.
The structure of this small temple it consisted of a nave about eight meters deep and five meters wide by four meters high. For many years masses were not celebrated regularly, except when a priest visited it. It was inhabited by hermits who fed on the produce of the lands and orchards they worked. In 1867, the chapter vicar, Rafel Oliver Ribas, published the parish plan for Ibiza and Formentera (at that time Blessed Palau was no longer on the island), which foresaw the need to build a public oratory in this area. Thus, the original private chapel would eventually become the present church.
The archduke Lluís Salvador made reference to this temple that same year: “the church des Cubells, under the invocation of the Virgin Mary of Carmen, is a very sober building, similar to all those of its character and has three chapels with semicircular arches on each side of the nave, still without a roof”. The church was provisionally converted into a parish church in 1933 and became a parish church in 1940. The work was finally finished in 1958.
The titular image of the virgin of Carmen was blessed on July 16, 1941. The wooden tabernacle that was placed in 1958 is the work of Román y Salvador, as well as the wooden altar below the image. The two chapels that this temple has on both sides of the presbytery belong to the old hermitage and are dedicated one to the Holy Christ and the Dolorosa, and the other to the Heart of Jesus.
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