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Monastery of Sant Serni de Tavèrnoles

les Valls de Valira, Alt Urgell, Lleida

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Monastery of Sant Serni de Tavèrnoles

Monument · les Valls de Valira, Alt Urgell, Lleida

The Benedictine monastery of Sant Serni (or Sant Sadurní) de Tavèrnoles, one of the most notable in the Alt Urgell, is a Romanesque building located in the village of Anserall, in the municipality of les Valls de Valira, beside the old royal road from la Seu d'Urgell to Andorra, which probably gave rise to its name, derived from taverna. Declared a bien cultural de interés nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection), only the east end and the transept survive of its three-nave church, with a singular apsidal arrangement of three apses in a cross around a main one. Documented since 806, from 815 onward it received important donations from the counts of Urgell and la Cerdanya, and came to have priories from the Berguedà as far as Andorra. What remains of the church was restored between 1971 and 1975.

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