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Hermitage of Santa Maria de Berrús

Riba-roja d'Ebre, Ribera d'Ebre, Tarragona

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Hermitage of Santa Maria de Berrús

Monument · Riba-roja d'Ebre, Ribera d'Ebre, Tarragona

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The hermitage, the only remnant of the old settlement of Berrús, is a small rectangular temple with a flat apse and a double-pitched roof of stone slabs resting on seven pointed diaphragm arches; its only door, round-arched, opens to the west, and a bell-gable tops the façade. In the 13th century Berrús belonged, along with Riba-roja, to the Templar commandery of Ascó, and was under the patronage of the lords of the place, first Templars and later Hospitallers; the documents that mention it date from 1205, 1229, 1263 and 1294. Berrús was a cluster of masos devoted to farming and livestock, like other Templar settlements in the comarca. In 1968, to prevent it from being submerged under the waters of the Riba-roja reservoir, built in 1969, the hermitage was moved stone by stone to its current site.

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Photo: Luis Zamora from Cataluña, España (CC BY 2.0)

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