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Santa Maria del Bruc

el Bruc, Anoia, Barcelona

1 Villages · 4 Monuments · 1 Historical milestones

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Santa Maria del Bruc

Monument · el Bruc, Anoia, Barcelona

Santa Maria del Bruc stands on a hill at the edge of El Bruc, in l'Anoia, where the church gave rise to the street and square of the parish, the oldest part of the village. The original Romanesque church was built in the 11th century, as recorded in a will of 1080 in which a certain Arnau left three ounces of gold to build the bell tower, topped by a pyramidal tower of glazed scale tiles. The church later underwent reforms in the 16th century. The Romanesque apse was walled up in 1777 and niches were added to it; when these were removed in 1958, Gothic wall paintings depicting Christ in Majesty and scenes from the life of Mary and the Three Kings appeared by accident. The 1986 restoration also brought to light Renaissance sgraffito on the vault of the main nave, with a 1644 inscription mentioning the rector Gaspar Marchs.

Photo: Jordiferrer (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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