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Sant Esteve de la Riba

Les Llosses, Ripollès, Girona

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Sant Esteve de la Riba

Monument · Les Llosses, Ripollès, Girona

Romanesque church from the 11th-12th centuries attached to the Riba farmhouse, with a single nave and a slightly pointed vault, an apse facing east, a doorway on the south side and a small bell tower at the south-west corner. In the 9th century Count Bernat of Cerdanya donated the church to the monastery of Ripoll, a donation confirmed in 1080; the present building dates from the 12th century. It retains five windows, four with stained glass depicting the four seasons with their names in Latin, and above the apse a painted chrismon surrounded by a floral wreath. It was fully restored by its owner, Moisès Torrents, around the 1960s, who obtained its deconsecration through the courts; the Baroque altarpiece it once held was later sold and is no longer kept in the church.

Photo: EliziR (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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