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Sant Esteve de Pardines

Pardines, Ripollès, Girona

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Sant Esteve de Pardines

Monument · Pardines, Ripollès, Girona

Sant Esteve de Pardines, declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), is the complex formed by the apse converted into a tower and a three-arched gateway onto which a street of the village opens, to which it is attached on its south side. From the original Romanesque church survive the apse, a splayed window and corbels; in the 13th century the apse was transformed into a defence tower, whose old arrow-slits can still be seen in the lower part, today incorporated into a dwelling built on top of it. The tower has been consolidated and restored, but the gateway, with one of its arches almost walled up due to stability problems, still shows damage. According to tradition, this complex was the original entrance to Pardines by the old royal road from Ribes to Camprodon.

Photo: jordi domènech (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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