Sant Romà de Vila Church

Church of Romanesque origin, restored in the 19th and 20th centuries

The Church of Sant Romà de Vila, of Romanesque origin, preserves the spirit of its early period despite later renovations. Built during the Middle Ages, it underwent various modifications in the 19th and 20th centuries, but still retains authentically Romanesque elements.

The current quadrangular apse preserves, on its exterior, the base of the original semicircular one. On the western wall rises a small bell gable.

Inside, visitors can admire a reproduction of the polychrome altar table, a 13th-century work of great artistic value. The original is kept at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).

This richly iconographic table consists of three panels: on the front, a depiction of Maiestas Domini —Christ in Majesty— surrounded by the Tetramorph (the four evangelists in symbolic form) and eight apostles in pairs. On the sides, the Assumption of Mary and three more apostles are shown.

The framing elements are decorated with vegetal and geometric motifs characteristic of the full Romanesque style.

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