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What to see and do in Sant Jaume de Frontanyà

What to see and do in Sant Jaume de Frontanyà (Berguedà, Barcelona): 2 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 1 Monuments

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Church of Sant Jaume de Frontanyà 50 m

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What to see and do in Sant Jaume de Frontanyà

Sant Jaume de Frontanyà
Village
Sant Jaume de Frontanyà is one of the smallest municipalities in Catalonia, with 25 inhabitants, in the Berguedà, watered by tributaries of the riera de Merlès. The village is laid out along two streets, Baix and Dalt, which converge next to the church. Documented since the year 905, it is home to a notable Romanesque church built around 1070 as the seat of a community of Augustinian monks governed by a prior: of Latin-cross plan, with three apses in the transept, it is covered by a twelve-sided dome unique in Catalonia, which led to a large part of the town being declared a cultural asset of interest in 2005. The heritage is completed by the hermitage of Sant Esteve de Tubau and the sanctuary of the Virgin dels Oms. It is governed by open council.
Church of Sant Jaume de Frontanyà
Monument
The church of Sant Jaume de Frontanyà, in the centre of the village of the same name (Berguedà), is the only vestige of a former Augustinian monastery built around 1070 as the seat of a community of canons governed by a prior. Declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional, it is one of the most notable Romanesque churches in Catalonia: with a Latin-cross plan, a barrel-vaulted nave and three semicircular apses opening onto the transept, it is crowned at the crossing by a dome on twelve-sided squinches, unique in Catalonia. The western façade arranges its decoration of Lombard arcading and pilaster strips into six panels, and preserves capitals from the old cloister discovered in 1965. The village, with barely 25 inhabitants, has been protected as the setting of the church since 2005.