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Church of Santa Maria d'Organyà

Organyà, Alt Urgell, Lleida

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Church of Santa Maria d'Organyà

Monument · Organyà, Alt Urgell, Lleida

Church of Organyà (Alt Urgell, Lleida), a town where the Homilies of Organyà, one of the oldest literary texts written in Catalan, were found. Documented since 993, it was rebuilt and consecrated anew in 1057 after a fire, and in 1090 it became a collegiate church of Augustinian canons. With a basilical plan of three naves and three apses, it retains from the 11th-12th-century Romanesque period the original apse, with blind arcading beneath a sawtooth frieze; the cloister and the doorway are from the 13th century, and the north nave, the roof and the current bell tower from the 17th-18th centuries. In 1904 Dr Joaquim Miret found the Homilies in the parish archive. It has been a parish since 1855 and Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection) since 2006.

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