La chiesa catalana senza navata: Il 12th secolo romanico fronte ovest della Església de Sant Pol a Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Ripollès, Catalogna, Spagna, è sopravvissuto tremori di terra e guerre che hanno distrutto le pareti laterali e il tetto della sua navata.
2826 x 2826 px | 23,9 x 23,9 cm | 9,4 x 9,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
21 giugno 2011
Ubicazione:
Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Ripollès, Catalonia, Spain.
Altre informazioni:
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Sant Joan de les Abadesses, Ripollès, Catalonia, Spain: the ruined 12th century Romanesque Església de Sant Pol, the former church of St John and St Paul, has been badly damaged over the centuries by earthquake and war and it now has no side walls to its nave. The Església, first documented in 1142, suffered in an earthquake in 1428 and was damaged by fighting in 1690, as Spain fought France in the Nine Years' War. Although it was then partly rebuilt in Baroque style, it was abandoned as a parish church in 1851. In 1939, during the Spanish Civil War, both the church and the Pont Vell, the town's ancient bridge over the River Ter, were left in ruins. Although the original medieval west front with its sculpted doorway has survived, together with three ancient apses, the nave has all but disappeared and the large octagonal belfry seen in this image mainly dates from the 1700s. The weathered facade still features Romanesque sculpted capitals, but the tympanum over the doorway, featuring saints John and Paul flanking Christ in Majesty, is now preserved in the town's museum. The Església was the parish church for the original village on this site in the Pyrenean foothills. At its heart was a religious community founded in 887 AD as a Benedictine nunnery. The nuns were expelled in 1017, but were replaced by Augustinian and Benedictine monks who expanded their monastery. Eventually, the village grew into a fortified medieval town, encircled by a strong wall defended by 24 towers and pierced by six gateways. Fragments of the wall survive, together with part of one of the towers. D1015.B2208
