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Santa Susanna de Peralta

Forallac, Baix Empordà, Girona

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Santa Susanna de Peralta

Monument · Forallac, Baix Empordà, Girona

Church located about 200 metres north of the ruins of the castle of Peralta, in the municipality of Forallac. It preserves a semicircular abside of Romanesque origin from the 11th century, decorated with Lombard arcading and a double-splayed window, covered with a quarter-sphere vault, and a nave with a lunette vault and a lateral voussoired round-arch door on the south wall. The tower bell tower was left unfinished, on the north side, and later ended in a two-arch bell-gable. The nave was widened at the end of the 18th century, according to an inscription from 1791 on the facade. The church appears in an 1017 bull of Pope Benedict VIII among the possessions of the abbey of Sant Esteve de Banyoles, and a restoration of 1976-1977 recovered the temple's original wall surfaces.

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

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