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Church of Sant Ramon del Pla de Santa Maria

el Pla de Santa Maria, Alt Camp, Tarragona

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Church of Sant Ramon del Pla de Santa Maria

Monument · el Pla de Santa Maria, Alt Camp, Tarragona

The church of San Ramón, in Pla de Santa Maria (Alt Camp), has a single nave with a semicircular apse and a transept, with an octagonal lantern remodelled in the 18th century. Its stylistic features place its construction between the 12th and 13th centuries, when it was a fief of the See of Tarragona, granted in 1137 to Berenguer de Vilafranca; notable is its lateral Romanesque doorway, with eight columns on each side and a sculpted lintel depicting the Virgin, the Child, the Epiphany and the Annunciation. It was sacked and burned during the Reapers' War, and in the 18th century its demolition began, although in 1772 it was repaired and the lantern rebuilt. Damaged again during the Civil War, it was restored in 1987; it was first dedicated to Santa María and, since the early 20th century, to San Ramón de Penyafort.

Photo: Jaume Meneses (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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