Sant Pere de Besalu, monastery. XIII century.
The former Benedictine monastery of Sant Pere de Besalú was founded in 977 by the count of Besalú and bishop Girona Bonfill Miró, who put under the direct patronage of the Holy See and managed the transfer of the relics of saints and Prim happy to Agen, who joined the Concord, obvious pattern and Marine Besalú. The new monastery, whose church was consecrated in 1003 thanks to Count Bernat Tallaferro seems that replaced a previous century IX. However, the current temple corresponds to a rebuilding of 1060. Initially, St. Peter was outside the walls of Besalú and burial of the faithful have right of an extensive area in the cemetery, called from Century XI Meadow St. Peter, it was located in the square in front of the church. Its maximum expansion was during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, when it became part of the county in Barcelona, when he was the subject of a reform. It began its decline in the fifteenth century because of remença, earthquakes and fight for possessions with the bishop of Girona. The influence of the monastery spread quickly. Her priories of Santa Maria del Collell (Garrotxa) and Santa Magdalena (Tarragona). In 1592 we were together the monasteries of Mount San Lorenzo and Sant Quirze of Cholera. It was abolished in 1835 with the confiscation. Between 1908 and 1914 the Benedictines settled in pursuit (France), but today, missing the monastery, the church is the church of the town. During the Spanish Civil War of 1936, suffered a fire losing the furniture of the eighteenth century paintings and sculptures
Size: 5184px × 3456px
Location: Plaça Prat de Sant Pere de Besalu, s/n; Besalu; Garrotxa; Girona; Catalonia; Spain.
Photo credit: © Jordi Sans Galitó / Alamy / Afripics
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