THROUGH THE MEDIEVAL ART ROADS: ROMANESQUE AND GHOTHIC
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1. Cervera:
Medieval city. The medieval past of Cervera is the first
thing we can only think about, when we observe, coming from Barcelone or
Tàrrega, the silhouette of the bell tower from the parochial of Santa
Maria de Cervera, one of the most remarkable Ghotic temples in Catalonia
and where some glassworks and Ghotic sarcophagus are preserved. The
medieval Cervera goes past the passage of
Les Bruixes (the
witches)
and past the
outskirts with thw singular Romanesque church of Sant Pere el Gros. |
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2. Ribera d’Ondara – Santa Coloma
de Queralt. In
Ribera d’Ondara from where it followed the old highroad joining
Barcelone and the Lleida lands, we can find many Romanesque architecture
exemples related to Santiago road in Catalonia, like the nice small
church of St. Jaume de Pallarols. After going to Talavera –
from where we cannot miss the panoramic view – the visit to St. Coloma
de Queralt will submerge us to a magnificient lowmedeval passing in this
county village, ancient capital of
saffron market. |
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3. From
Sedó to Sant Ramon and two valleys route.
We find good exemples of Romanesque art in this itinerary. From Sant
Julià de El Llor church or the small church of Castellmeià, following
to Gospí and Estaràs. In the county towns of Sant Guim de Freixenet
and Les Olugues there are also interesting exemples – Freixenet,
Montfalcó – returning to Sedó through Malgrat. |
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4. Ribera del Sió de Sedó a Agramunt.
This
route is specially intense because of the big quantity of Romanesque art
we can find in Ribera del Sió – Concabella, Pelagalls, Bellver de Siö,
Ossó de Sió, Castellnou d’Ossó – reaching the magnificient
parochial of Agramunt with the best Romanesque main front in the lands
of Lleida and one of the most notable in Catalonia. We can come back
passing by the Almenara Tower, La Guàrdia, Vilagrassa (which is a good
exemple of main front from
Lleida school), Tàrrega and Riudovelles. |
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5. The
Romanesque in the Plain of Guissona and from Ponts to Sanaüja.
This is an itinerary of small Romanesque churches surrounding Guissona
– Priorat de Teuladells, Gra, Les Sitges – and giong to Ponts
passing by Vila-Major. In Ponts we need to make the collegiate curch
stand out, which has been splendidly restored, and the Gualter monastry
two kilometres away. From Ponts to Sanaüja we will visit the Romanesque
in Vilanova de l’Aguda valley and the castle and the church of
Ribelles.
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6. The
medieval art in Llobregós valley.
In this route we find wonderful Romanesque art exemples, from Biosca –
Santa Maria del Castell, Sant Pelegrí -, Lloberola – Ghotic
Sarcophagus of the ancient cemetery, Santa Maria de l’Aguda, the
little coenobium of Sant Celdoni and Ermenter de Cellers... – up to
Santa Maria de Catellfollit de Riubregós, returming through Ivorra,
where we find the Ghotic reliquary of
Sant Dubte. |
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7. Cistercian
order route in Urgell. This route leads us from Tàrrega –
see of the missing Pedregal monastry – up to Vallbona de les Monges,
passing by the ancient coenobium of Vallsanta, in Guimerà and visiting
at the same time the medieval art exemples in the Corb valley, from
Guimerà to the small churches of El Vilet or Maldà, arriving at the
wonderful monastry of Vallbona, where the queen Violant of Hungary, wife
of Jaume the first the conqueror, lies. |
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8. Ghotic
churches of Urgell. This itinerary will lead us from Tàrrega
to Sant Martí de Maldà, from where we will follow up to Belianes and
its parrochial of the 16th century, Bellpuig – convent of
Sant Bertomeu and parrochial – Linyola and its parrochial church,
Castellserà – Ghotic parrochial and ancient "panera",
the tithe house of Poblet monastry. Our last points coming back to Tàrrega
will be the parrochial of Anglesola and Vilagrassa, where the Ghotic
bell tower, which is curiously inclined, is a wonderful complement to
the Romamesque main front of the church. |