Santa Maria de Palera
Santa Maria de Palera is a small 11th century Romanesque church in the Catalan village of Beuda , near the town of Besalú .
The church is first mentioned in 1085 in connection with the consecration of the Church of Sant Sepulcre de Palera and remained an independent parish until the 17th century. The church is a single-nave building, covered with a barrel vault, with a semicircular apse on the east side with a central window. The covering barrel vault is supported by two round arches. The bell wall with its two openings was subsequently converted into a tile-roofed bell tower.
In the church there is a simple Romanesque baptismal font with a diameter of 74 and a height of 72 centimeters. The chancel of the church originally contained the original of a 55 centimeter high Gothic figure of Mary made of polychrome alabaster from the 14th century by Jaume Cascalls . The figure, destroyed during the iconoclastic actions leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936, was restored and placed in the Diocesan Museum of Girona . There is a replica in the church.
literature
- Josep Murlà i Giralt; Nicolau Gironès i Casanovas: Guia del romanic de La Garrotxa . Alzamora, Olot 1983, OCLC 434851504 . Page 210 f., There the article "Santa Maria de Palera"
- Enciclopèdia Catalana, Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya, Volume 3, 1st edition, Barcelona 1981, ISBN 84-85194-17-9 (Volume 3), chapter "Beuda", page 404 f., There a brief review of the Romanesque church of "Santa Maria de Palera"
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Coordinates: 42 ° 13 ′ 17.8 " N , 2 ° 41 ′ 52.4" E