Sant Pere de Rodes monastery. Romanesque. El Port de la Selva.
Benedictine monastery whose construction started probably around the ninth century, although there are traces dating from the seventh century, at the time of the papacy of Boniface IV, as the crypt, and the legend says that earlier that century were guarding the remains of the Apostle Peter, who gave the monastery important as a destination of pilgrimage. During its history the monastery has undergone several expansions and improvements. The most prolific stage is the eleventh century, when the church rises, with unique dimensions. It has a plant in a cross, with three ships and a cruise cut apses. The main hall is vaulted. The capitals of the columns are of Corinthian style and command compound. Also at that time, the tower of San Miguel that gives access to the chapel and cloister of San bottom that was used until the twelfth century, which was built in the upper cloister. In that century Pilgrim Hospital is also outside of the enclosure, with vestiges of pre-Romanesque building techniques opus spicatum (ear-shaped) found in many other buildings of the Cap de Creus. The faculty is higher than two centuries later, the twelfth century, around which there is the refectory, library and desk, which made the monastery a center of culture of the first order. The last part of the important works is the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when just the keep, and Palace of the Abbot. In 1797, French troops led by the Duke of Noailles entered the monastery and took away the most valuable piece of the monastery, the Bible four volumes of Sant Pere de Rodes, dating from the first half of the tenth century and preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. The plundering of architectural works and the monastery has been a constant fact to this day. Fortunately, in the church of Port de la Selva are preserved Gothic figure represents San Pedro, polychrome stone saved from plundering the monastery and dates back to the fifteenth century.
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Location: Camí de Sant Pere de Rodes; El Port de la Selva; Alt Emporda; Girona; Catalonia; Spain
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