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Santa Cristina de Corçà

Corçà, Baix Empordà, Girona

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Santa Cristina de Corçà

Monument · Corçà, Baix Empordà, Girona

Hermitage of medieval origin located about five hundred metres south of the village of Corçà, protected as a local cultural asset. It consists of a single nave and an abside of semicircular plan tending toward a horseshoe shape, whose base dates back to the 11th century, while the rest of the building -with well-worked ashlars- belongs to the 12th or 13th centuries, although it was rebuilt at least once already in the 14th. The roof is a slightly pointed barrel vault. The first document citing the chapel is from 1235, when Maria de Cruïlles made a bequest to it in her will; in 1364 the bishop of Girona authorised the purchase of a bell and the rebuilding of the temple. The presence of tegulae and amphora fragments in the neighbouring fields suggests it was built on an earlier place of worship, perhaps Roman.

Photo: Josep Renalias Lohen11 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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