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Santa Maria de la Tallada

La Tallada d'Empordà, Baix Empordà, Girona

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Santa Maria de la Tallada

Monument · La Tallada d'Empordà, Baix Empordà, Girona

Romanesque parish church of la Tallada d'Empordà (Baix Empordà), located at the northeast corner of the old walled precinct of the castle, at the highest point of the settlement, and declared bien cultural de interés nacional (a Catalan cultural-heritage protection category). It has a single nave with a semicircular apse and two side chapels, and was built between the 12th and 13th centuries: the first documentary references, from 1279-1280, cite it as the chapel of the castle of la Tallada, under the rule of the counts of Empúries. In the 16th century the settlement was fortified and a tower was raised over the apse as a turret of the walls, and in the 18th century the side chapels and the sacristy were added. It preserves an image of Saint Galderic, patron of the Catalan peasants, carved in cypress in 1987.

Photo: Josep Renalias (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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