Romanesque

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Romanesque

The rural art par excellence full of symbolism and color

The Romanesque is the most widespread architectural and pictorial movement in Catalonia and in Berguedà, a fairly homogeneous current that developed in present-day western Europe from the 11th century until the late 13th.

Small churches built by our craft ancestors in the most inhospitable places; churches that laid the foundations for today's churches; an interesting monastery and churches perfectly restored and equipped to visit. You will surely find in each of your walks some memories of this splendid time when faith made the most unimaginable. A legacy that the Berguedà has managed to preserve.

There are currently eleven of the Pre-Romanesque and Romanesque churches in Berguedà, of which six (Sant Vicenç de Obiols, Sant Sadurní de Rotgers, Sant Vicenç de Rus, Sant Quirze de Pedret, the Monastery of Sant Llorenç and the Monastery of Santa Maria de Serrateix) are open to the public , so you can enjoy and discover some of the most important works of this current in Catalonia. Santa Maria d'Avià, Santa Maria de Lillet, Sant Martí de Puig-Reig, Sant Andreu de Sagàs and the church of Sant Jaume de Frontanyà can be visited by asking for the key in each of the places indicated by each church.

In addition, Civitas Cultura organizes cultural activities in the Monastery of Sant Llorenç every weekend from spring to autumn and sporadic activities in the other four spaces that can be visited.

Sant Vicenç d'Obiols

Avià

Church with different constructive stages, with preromanic elements (plant) and Romanesque (walls of enclosure and fragment of the vault). It preserves the necropolis, with tombs inside the church and outside. The church and the site of Obiols were...
Santa Maria d'Avià

Avià

Romanesque church built in the middle of the 12th century. A single nave with semicircular apse of similar measures in height and width than the nave. Inside the church you can see a copy of the altar front from the first half of the 13th century,...
Sant Sadurni de Rotgers

Borredà

With news from the end of s. X, the current building preserves the semicircular apse with Lombard decorations characteristic of Romanesque XI century. XI and the nave and the bell tower of two floors, from s. XII. It also conserves the original door and...
Sant Vicenç de Rus

Castellar de n'Hug

The church was built in the 12th Century over remains from the High –middle Ages. It contains mural paintings original from Linear Gothic and reproductions of Romanesque mural paintings of the 12th Century.
Sant Quirze de Pedret

Cercs

We have news from the church of Sant Quirze de Pedret from the year 983, when it was a property of the monastery of San Llorenç. During the early medieval period was not a parish, but even so, the church was favored by the faithful and was extended and...
Monestir de Sant Llorenç

Guardiola de Berguedà

The monastery of Sant Llorenç is one of the most important cenobític set of Berguedà. Stands out the magnificent church, which has the distinction of having a gallery in the nave, under which there is a beautiful space that looks like a crypt. On the...
Santa Maria de Lillet i rotonda de Sant Miquel

La Pobla de Lillet

Monastery of Santa Maria de Lillet
Although the first church has been reported from 833, it is not until the eleventh century that the Augustinian canonical was found, documented from 1,086 and maintained until 1,592, when the monastery was abandoned....
Sant Martí de Puig-reig

Puig-reig

Church of a single nave, cover with an elegant pointed vault and finished with a semicircular apse covered with a quarter sphere. The vault of the apse begins as a simple impost cornice. Separated from the nave by a triumphal arch in the middle has a...
Sant Andreu de Sagàs

Sagàs

This temple, with marked Romanesque style, was modified from the s. XVI. Several restorations were made with the aim to restore the original appearance of the building.
Església de Sant Jaume de Frontanyà

Sant Jaume de Frontanyà

In the mid of IX century, the Romanesque church was small and the community of Augustinian monks from Frontanyà began to build the new church and monastery. Today, the church and is an example of Lombard Romanesque art in Catalonia for its purity of...
Santa Maria de Serrateix

Viver i Serrateix

The monastery of Santa Maria de Serrateix was founded in the X century, enjoying the protection of the counts of Cerdanya and Berguedà Sires. Accumulation of significant assets and their income allowed him to make significant architectural works from...