Church Mare de Déu de Jesús

A single-nave church with barrel-vaulted ceilings, six side chapels (one of them "fonda") and a ribbed vault (1549) in the chancel.  It is documented in the second half of the 15th century and was possibly occupied by the Franciscan order. In the late 1500s it seems to have been run by the Dominicans, who then moved elsewhere but kept custody of the church until 1674. In 1785 it was raised to the category of parish.

Like other Ibiza churches, new constructions were gradually put up beside it (a rectory, a vicary) in the 17th and 18th centuries, giving it its characteristic religious defensive appearance. Noteworthy is the porch or "porxo" with three round arches, although not as a continuation of the main façade. It is a later addition, from the late 19th or early 20th century. It was originally located outside the town centre. It was the religious centre for farmers and people of the sea who lived outside the city walls, and also a place of pilgrimage.

Conserved inside are some outstanding works of art, such as a 16th-century painting of the Virgin, by Antonio Saura, a 17th-century painting of Santa Clara, and especially, the main altarpiece, which is considered to be the most important piece of religious art from Ibiza. This alterpiece is a Gothic reredos from the late 15th and early 16th century made by Valencian painters Rodrigo de Osona and his son Francisco. It has 25 panels and measures 7.5 m high by 5.10 m wide. There are seven pictures running across the predella: the Annunciation of Mary, the Nativity, the Gift of the Magii, the Resurrection of Christ, the Ascension of the Lord, Pentecost and the Dormition of Mary). 

The main body is organised in three vertical rows, two with two panels each and the middle one with three, as an attic.  Presiding over the ensemble is the image of the Virgin on a throne holding the Christ child in her arms. Above her is a panel of St Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata, and in the top panel or attic, the Mass of Pope St. Gregory. The side rows contain depictions of St Mark, a Franciscan saint, St. Peter and St John the Baptist. Around the reredos are other figure of lesser size (St Sebastian, St Onofre, St Louis of Tolosa, St Vicente Ferrer, St John the Evangelist, Christ the King --at the top, a Dominican saint, St Catherine of Alexandria, St Nicholas of Bari, St. Bernard and St Roque.

The church cemetery contains the ashes of architect josep Lluis Sert, one of the great professionals of contemporary architecture, who became fascinated by traditional local architecture in the 1930s. Although he did not die on the island, his wishes were to be buried there, where he had done several works.