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Church of Sant Julià de l'Arboç

l'Arboç, Baix Penedès, Tarragona

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Church of Sant Julià de l'Arboç

Monument · l'Arboç, Baix Penedès, Tarragona

Sant Julià de l'Arboç is the parish church of the municipality, declared a bien cultural de interés nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection). It has a single nave measuring 40 by 12 metres with six side chapels on each side and a pentagonal apse, covered by a ribbed vault in the Gothic tradition; the façade features a large four-column portal with a frieze, a rose window and two turrets 28 metres high, one with a clock and the other with wooden rattles. Behind the apse stands the capella del Santíssim, cross-shaped with a dome over the crossing. In the capella dels Dolors, built in the 17th century next to the old Estudi Vell, the Lignum vitae de l'Arboç is preserved, Gothic mural paintings from the early 14th century discovered and restored in 1968.

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