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Church of Santa Maria de Llerona

les Franqueses del Vallès, Vallès Oriental, Barcelona

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Church of Santa Maria de Llerona

Monument · les Franqueses del Vallès, Vallès Oriental, Barcelona

A church from the 12th to the 18th centuries in the municipality of les Franqueses del Vallès, of pre-Romanesque origin, dated to the year 990, although it did not become a parish until 1575, when it replaced the nearby hermitage of Sant Iscle. Listed as Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection), it preserves a Latin-cross floor plan with three square apses recalling its pre-Romanesque origin, and a 12th-century doorway with an archivolt over columns with decorated capitals; one depicts a mask among acanthus leaves and the other, the Virgin on a cushion between two angels. It was built over a Roman villa, from which part of the baptismal font comes; during the second Remença war it was fortified, and on 28 March 1485 its leader, Pere Joan Sala, was captured in Llerona and executed in Barcelona.

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