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Sant Romà de les Arenes

Foixà, Baix Empordà, Girona

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Sant Romà de les Arenes

Monument · Foixà, Baix Empordà, Girona

Pre-Romanesque church located at the southern end of the old settlement of Sidillà, in the municipality of Foixà, one of the few visible remains of a settlement of possibly early medieval origin buried by sands fixed by pine trees, near the Ter river; the settlement and its parish are documented between the 12th and 14th centuries as a possession of the bishopric of Gerona. It is a small temple, with a single nave with a transverse arch and a trapezoidal apse, covered by an incipient horseshoe barrel vault, whose doors and windows also preserve that arch. Its dating is disputed: between the 7th and 8th centuries according to Joan Badia i Homs, in the 10th century for Xavier Barral and Eduard Junyent, although in any case it is a building earlier than the Romanesque. It underwent clearance and consolidation works in 1983.

Photo: Josep Maria Viñolas Esteva (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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