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Church of Fórnoles

Fórnoles, Matarraña, Teruel

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Church of Fórnoles

Monument · Fórnoles, Matarraña, Teruel

Church of the sanctuary of Our Lady of Monserrate — the hermitage of Santa Mónica —, at the head of a valley that runs down to Fórnoles, a town in Teruel province, in the Matarraña region. The complex, which also includes a two-storey cloister and a well, was built in Gothic style from the 14th century onward and was extended between the 17th and 18th centuries; it consists of a single nave of three bays, covered by a ribbed vault in the central bay and by shell-shaped domes in the main chapel and in one side chapel, and of an ashlar bell tower reached by a spiral staircase from the choir. Around the sanctuary grows a notable group of cypresses listed as monumental trees.

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