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Consecration of Santa Maria de Lluçà

Lluçà, Lluçanès, Barcelona

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Consecration of Santa Maria de Lluçà

Historical milestone · Lluçà, Lluçanès, Barcelona

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In 905 Bishop Idalguer consecrated the church of Santa Maria de Lluçà at the foot of the castrum of Lucano, the first documented mention of the area; beneath the rock on which it stands, numerous anthropomorphic tombs from the early 10th century have been found, from the same period as that consecration. Above the temple there later rose the Augustinian canonry that organised the scattered settlement of the plateau, today considered the most notable historic building in the Llusanès. It retains an irregularly shaped cloister with eighteen arches whose capitals, with zoomorphic and plant motifs, are related to those of Ripoll, a reused Romanesque doorway dating from between 1170 and 1300, and 14th-century wall paintings discovered in 1954 and displayed in a small adjoining museum.

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