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Monastery of Sant Pere de Graudescales

Navès, Solsonès, Lleida

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Monastery of Sant Pere de Graudescales

Monument · Navès, Solsonès, Lleida

A Benedictine monastery founded in 913 by the cleric Magnulf and consecrated by the bishop of Urgell; the only building still standing from the old community, it rises alone in the small Valldora, on the eastern flank of the cliffs of the Serra de Busa, beside the Aigua d'Ora stream. The present church, with a Latin-cross plan with one nave, three apses and an octagonal dome over the crossing, decorated on the outside with Lombard arcading, was completed in the 12th century. Converted into a parish in 1270, it lost its religious use in 1900 and was excavated and restored between 1956 and 1967. In 1903 the priest Pere Pujol made known a 12th-century document drawn up there, the Greuges dels homes de Sant Pere de Graudescales, one of the earliest complete texts in the Catalan language.

Photo: Josep Renalias - Lohen11 (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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