Why go
Casa Garriga and Sant Romà explain different sides of Lloret’s overseas connections: trade and migration in the museum, patronage and artistic ambition in the church. The Modernist cemetery adds sculpture and architecture to that story, making it useful for visitors interested in the people behind the buildings.
The full story
The Maritime Museum occupies Casa Garriga, an Indiano house. Indianos were people whose lives and fortunes connected them with the Americas. The museum follows coastal Mediterranean trade through Atlantic sailing and the changes that came after the sailing-ship era. Its domestic setting makes the history more tangible than a list of ships and voyages. Overseas wealth also helped reshape Sant Romà. Bonaventura Conill i Montobbio directed the Modernist reconstruction commissioned in 1914, with sculpture by Josep Llimona and Enric Clarasó. Narcís Gelats funded the chapel of Santíssim Sacrament from Havana in memory of his wife. Conill’s work appears again in the cemetery, where crosses, dragons and mourning angels turn tombs into expressive architectural works. Compare the church and cemetery for two very different uses of the same artistic language.