Cloister, Santa Maria de Ripoll, Ripoll, Catalonia, Spain

Capitals, by Pere Gregori and Jordi de Deu, 15th century, in the cloister, in Santa Maria de Ripoll, or Ripoll monastery, a Benedictine monastery built in Romanesque style, founded by Guifre el Pilos, or count Wilfred the Hairy, in 888, and built 9th - 12th century mainly under the abbots Arnulfo and Oliva, in Ripoll, Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The cloister is 2 storeys, the lower floor built 12th - 15th century and the upper floor built 15th - 16th century. The monastery was founded at the time of the splitting of the Carolingian empire into counties and the beginnings of Catalonia and Barcelona. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Benedictine Cataluna Cloister Gerona Girona Gregori Guifre Hairy Jordi Monestir Pere Pilos Ripoll Ripolles Velloso Wilfred Wilfredo

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