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Santa Maria de Piera

Piera, Anoia, Barcelona

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Santa Maria de Piera

Monument · Piera, Anoia, Barcelona

Church of Piera (Anoia) documented since 1002, when the list of possessions of the monastery of Sant Cugat mentions the castle of Piera with the chapel of Santa Maria; it became a parish in 1159 and its act of consecration was drawn up in 1260. In 1630, already in the 17th century, the first major restoration took place, with the construction of the chapel of the Sant Crist, the altar of the Roser and the main altar; in 1792 the door of the Sagrat Cor was opened and in 1819 the first stone of the new bell tower was laid. It is a single-nave church with lateral chapels - four on the north side and three on the south - and a barrel vault, partly semicircular and partly pointed, which reveals its Romanesque origin beneath the successive Baroque extensions; the lantern tower was added in 1883.

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