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Sant Vicenç de Maià de Montcal

Maià de Montcal, Garrotxa, Girona

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Sant Vicenç de Maià de Montcal

Monument · Maià de Montcal, Garrotxa, Girona

Parish church of the village of Maià de Montcal (la Garrotxa), documented since the year 978 in the donation that count-bishop Miró Bonfill made to the monastery of Sant Pere de Besalú, when the temple was referred to as Sancti Vicencii in villa Maliano. The current building is, however, Romanesque, from the 12th century, with a single nave, a pointed barrel vault and a semicircular chancel; around the perimeter of the apse runs a frieze supported by five carved corbels -a man's head, an acanthus leaf, a man carrying a bundle and an angel with outspread wings, among others-. The bell tower, square in plan, was built reusing part of the original bell-gable. The church was restored in 1978, coinciding with the millennium of its first documentary mention.

Photo: PMRMaeyaert (CC BY-SA 3.0 es)

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