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Sant Salvador de Puig-alder

Les Planes d'Hostoles, Garrotxa, Girona

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Sant Salvador de Puig-alder

Monument · Les Planes d'Hostoles, Garrotxa, Girona

Sant Salvador de Puig-alder is a Romanesque hermitage situated on top of a hill, in the district of Cogolls, within the municipality of Les Planes d'Hostoles (la Garrotxa), a continuation of the chapel of the former castle of Puig-alder, already documented in 1184. With a single nave and a semicircular apse facing south-east, it preserves a broad voussoired porch supported by wooden beams, beneath which a cistern opens, and a single-arched bell-gable; its present appearance is the result of remodelling in the late Middle Ages and the modern era. In 1984 it underwent a careful restoration during which a Romanesque carving of the Virgin was found, called "Mare del Salvador" and now kept in the Museu d'Art de Girona. The castle, of which the hermitage was the chapel, belonged to the counts of Besalú.

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

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