La Roca Monument. Santa Maria church. Sant Marti castle. Sant Marti Sarroca.
The origins of the town of Sant Martí Sarroca are in Rock Hill, where a population arose around the castle of St. Martin and the church of Santa Maria, which form the Monument of the Rock. Was demolished part of a castle to restore the facades. The structure of the castle was rebuilt in the rooms made up of noble, forming a courtyard with trapezoidal shape. [6] On the ground floor there are paintings room that maintains the original structure of the eleventh century. The old castle kitchens occupy three rooms on the ground floor. The room evokes the old Gothic room, originally Romanesque. The west room is restored Renaissance style. In the south wing, formerly housed on the first floor room or bedroom windows retain seats benches. The ground floor was the old wine cellar Romanesque, The Church of Santa Maria is a Romanesque church of the twelfth century. The church is a place of pilgrimage for anyone who wants to get to know the Catalan Romanesque religious, because it has one of the most precious buildings of this style, especially his wonderful Romanesque apse of the twelfth century, the rich in Catalonia and one of the best European Romanesque and the peculiar way in which they made the construction of the dome, which rests on the dome shells, instead of horns, unique case in Catalonia. Its Romanesque apse is considered one of the best of Catalonia in style and one of the best European Romanesque.
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Location: Avinguda del Castell, 99; Sant Marti Sarroca; Alt Penedes; Barcelona; Catalonia; Spain.
Photo credit: © Jordi Sans Galitó / Alamy / Afripics
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