Sant Sebastia dels Gorgs, Avinyonet del Penedes. Benedictine.
The monastery was founded in the eleventh century in a place where it is possible that there could be a pre-Romanesque chapel older. It is documented since 1024. The original impulse was brought by the daughter of Count Borrell II, Ermengarda, and especially by the son of this, Mir Geribert, which gave the monastery lands and goods to reach remarkable importance. The same Mir Geribert it later became priory, depending on the Benedictine monastery of St. Victor of Marseille Provence. By the mid-fourteenth century was almost abandoned and 1401 was attached to the monastery of Montserrat. In 1606 there were important reforms and shortly after it was used as an agricultural unit to its secularization in the nineteenth century. The church, however, remains open for worship and came under the parish Avinyonet. The complex, completely renovated, is composed of the Gothic church, affected by the earthquake in 1373 and rebuilt in 1380 into three wings of the cloister and the bell tower.
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Location: Plaça de Sant Sebastia dels Gorgs; Avinyonet del Penedes; Alt Penedes; Barcelona; Catalonia; Spain.
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