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Santa Margarida de Quart

Quart, Gironès, Girona

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 1 Food and drink

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Santa Margarida de Quart

Monument · Quart, Gironès, Girona

Santa Margarida de Quart stands atop a small hill, outside the present-day settlement of Quart, which has grown up alongside the road from Gerona to Llagostera. It has a single nave of three bays with ribbed vaults and side chapels, a chancel that is polygonal inside and semicircular outside, and a choir at the west end reached through a door dated 1729. The baroque doorway, from 1748, opens between columns and is crowned by a niche with the image of the saint and a rose window; the bell tower, of Romanesque origin and restored between 1975 and 1983, preserves two storeys of twin windows on columns with corbel-shaped capitals. The temple, documented since 1362, also holds the relics of Saint Justa and Saint Rufina, patronesses of potters.

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

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