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Church of Santa Maria de Cap d'Aran

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Church of Santa Maria de Cap d'Aran

Monument · Naut Aran, Val d'Aran, Lleida

Church of Santa Maria de Cap d'Aran, considered the most important church of Aranese Romanesque. It was a former 13th-century Templar convent, exempt from paying the Galin Reiau, and, in the Middle Ages, a hospital for travellers crossing the Port de la Bonaigua. Its three-naved, three-apsed fabric dates from the late 11th century, with a major renovation in the 12th; it preserved Romanesque murals attributed to the circle of the Master of Pedret, now in the Cloisters Museum in New York.

Photo: Catalan Art & Architecture Gallery (Josep Bracons) from Barcelona, Catalonia (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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