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Church of Santa Maria del castell de Claramunt

la Pobla de Claramunt, Anoia, Barcelona

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Church of Santa Maria del castell de Claramunt

Monument · la Pobla de Claramunt, Anoia, Barcelona

The church of Santa Maria, Romanesque, is integrated into the precinct of the castle of Claramunt, in la Pobla de Claramunt (Anoia). It is a temple of rectangular plan in the form of a Latin cross, with six chapels in addition to the two beside the main altar, 37 metres long by 19 wide and 17 high, with a single nave, a high choir and a square bell tower that becomes octagonal at roof height. It preserves Gothic vault keystones from the 14th century and several images from the castle of Claramunt itself, moved here in 1463: a crucified Christ carved in polychrome wood, today in the chapel of the Sant Crist, and the Mare de Déu de la Llet, a 13th-century carving that has been the village's patron since 1925.

Photo: PMRMaeyaert (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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