The Church of Sant Romà was built in 1522 and, in keeping with the architecture of the age, is in Catalan Gothic-style. This church replaced the earlier Church of Sant Romà - now called the Church of les Alegries - as Lloret's town centre moved from the hinterland to the coast.

In those days, the coast was threatened by constant attack from Turkish and Algerian pirates, who killed, burned, kidnapped, ransacked... This is why it was decided that the new parish church also had to act as a refuge for the faithful during pirate raids. The bell tower was filled with merlons and loopholes, and the gate - which in fact was a drawbridge - led into a very deep ditch.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Lloret's wealth, especially with the return of the "Americanos", allowed for large-scale reforms to be made to the parish church. On the Gothic base, the architect, Bonaventura Conill i Montobbio, applied the prevailing Modernist designs and created a spectacular building with Byzantine, Muslim and Renaissance traces. The restoration work began in 1914.

Shortly after, in 1920, the parish schools were also founded.

The Civil War in 1936, however, led to the destruction of nearly all the Modernist design and today only the Capella del Santíssim (or sacristy) remains as a clear indication of what the renovation of the parish church was like.