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Shrine of la Mare de Déu de les Sogues

Bellvís, Pla d'Urgell, Lleida

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Shrine of la Mare de Déu de les Sogues

Monument · Bellvís, Pla d'Urgell, Lleida

Sanctuary situated on the Tossal de les Sogues, in the municipal term of Bellvís (Pla d'Urgell), where the chapel of the Miracle stands, small in size and rectangular in plan, with a three-arch porch and parts that preserve exposed 16th-century stonework. According to legend, the Virgin appeared in 1190 to Joan Amorós to ask that a sanctuary be built for her, hence the name Miracle; the first chapel was built in 1528 and in 1584 it passed to the Trinitarian friars, who in 1585 built the adjoining convent of les Sogues. Badly damaged in the Peninsular War and the Civil War, it was rebuilt in 1816 and restored in 1968. From 1977 the Tossal was excavated, and in 1982-1983 the Casal de la Mare de Déu was built there, shaped like a ship, the work of the architect Jordi Mir i Valls.

Photo: Nuriabote (talk) (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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