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Monastery of Sant Pere del Burgal

la Guingueta d'Àneu, Pallars Sobirà, Lleida

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Monastery of Sant Pere del Burgal

Monument · la Guingueta d'Àneu, Pallars Sobirà, Lleida

The monastery of Sant Pere del Burgal, within the area of the village of Escaló, in the municipality of la Guingueta d'Àneu, stands in ruins above the Àneu valley, next to the Sant Pere ravine, at the foot of the Roc del Gento. Documented since the year 859, it became linked in the 10th century to the monastery of Gerri and later came under the French abbey of La Grasse, protected at once by the comital house of Pallars and the local nobility. The current building dates from this period, the 11th century, with a basilical plan with three naves and an apse flanked by two apsidioles with blind Lombard arcading; in the apse the portrait of Countess Llúcia de la Marca was preserved as protector of the monastery, an exceptional case in Romanesque Catalonia. It was secularised in 1570 and, after the disentailment of 1835, was reduced to a simple chapel.

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