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Church of Santa Maria de Gerri

Baix Pallars, Pallars Sobirà, Lleida

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Church of Santa Maria de Gerri

Monument · Baix Pallars, Pallars Sobirà, Lleida

Church of the monastery of Gerri de la Sal, with a basilical plan of three naves without a transept and three semicircular apses, from the 12th century, with a barrel vault reinforced by transverse arches and thirty carved capitals. The monastery was founded in 807 under the dedication of Sant Vicenç, obtained papal protection in 966 under that of Santa Maria, and became the richest in the bishopric of Urgell in the 12th-13th centuries; it declined from the 14th century and was secularized with the 1835 disentailment. The chapter house preserves Baroque wall paintings restored in 2012.

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