The Viscounty of Cabrera, in religious terms, was made up of several parishes with their respective churches and hermitages, which provided religious services to the community. Likewise, several monasteries of different religious orders were founded there.
The earliest historical records of the parish of Santa Maria de Vidreres date back to the 11th century. A few centuries later, in the 1358 document “Constitutions of the Castles”, this parish is mentioned as a possession of the Vicomtes de Cabrera, along with the Castle of Sant Iscle, a military building that formed part of the viscountship and dominated the term of Vidreres since its construction in the 12th century. The patrons of the village, venerated today in a side chapel of the parish church, are Saint Iscle and Saint Victoria, as in the Middle Ages the saint's relics had been deposited in the castle chapel. The present church of Santa Maria is the result of the major architectural reform carried out at the end of the 18th century, in the Neoclassical Baroque style.
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