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Monastery of Santa Maria de Mur

Castell de Mur, Pallars Jussà, Lleida

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Monastery of Santa Maria de Mur

Monument · Castell de Mur, Pallars Jussà, Lleida

The monastery of Santa Maria de Mur is a former Augustinian monastery in Pallars Jussà, founded in 1069 by the counts Ramon IV and Valença and consecrated that same year by Bishop Guillem d'Urgell, with a wall that surrounded it together with the castle, forming a large fortification. The church, in Lombard Romanesque style, has three naves with a barrel vault and three semicircular apses, originally dedicated to Santa María, San Pedro and San Esteban; its wall paintings from the central apse, removed in 1919 and sold to an antique dealer, are now kept in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, while those from the south apsidiole are in the National Art Museum of Catalonia. Declared a historic-artistic monument in 1920, it retains a 12th-century cloister with capitals decorated with geometric, plant and human motifs.

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