Chapel Pantheon Chapel of the Marquises of Comillas

It is part of the Sobrellano complex, constituting a clear example of a picturesque reaction to classicism. For the construction, the architect followed English and Central European perpendicular Gothic models, resulting in a miniature cathedral, according to the deeply religious spirit of the architect and Don Claudio López Bru, second Marquis of Comillas. The Pantheon of Don Claudio López y López and Doña Benita Díaz de Quijano (1881) is an outstanding example of Catalan modernist sculpture in Cantabria. The sculptures of the "Plegaria" and the "Resignation" denote the influence of the Rodin style and seem to relate to the light and the atmosphere that surrounds them; all three were made by outstanding Catalan modernist sculptors such as Jose LLimona y Barbany and Agapito Vallmitjana. Inside the chapel, the presbytery was sumptuously ornamented with the polished bronze altar and table, the frontal with the symbols of the Gospels and the Agnus Dei, and the image of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The furniture designed by Gaudi was also added, still with a Gothic air, but announcing modernism. The inauguration of the chapel-pantheon coincided with the visit of Alfonso XII to Comillas in 1881.