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Sant Andreu de la Pobla de Claramunt

la Pobla de Claramunt, Anoia, Barcelona

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Sant Andreu de la Pobla de Claramunt

Monument · la Pobla de Claramunt, Anoia, Barcelona

Sant Andreu was a 12th-century Romanesque church, now disappeared, located in the municipality of la Pobla de Claramunt, next to what is today the neighbourhood that bears its name, beyond the neighbourhood of les Figueres. It was a suffragan of Santa Maria, the church of the castle of Claramunt, and it is already documented in the 13th century, although it must have existed since the previous century; between 1463 and 1485 it held the parish burials while the castle and its church, destroyed during the Catalan civil war, were being rebuilt. In 1772 worship was banned due to the poor condition of the building, and its Baroque altarpiece was not moved to the present-day church of la Pobla until 1793; the temple ended up being demolished in the 19th century. Since the 1970s, the neighbourhood built on the hillside where it once stood has kept its name.

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