Santa Maria de Ripoll, Ripoll, Catalonia, Spain
Lower side of the nave of 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 monastery was founded at the time of the splitting of the Carolingian empire into counties and the beginnings of Catalonia and Barcelona. It houses a monumental Romanesque catalan portal. The buildings were restored and rebuilt in the 19th century by Elies Rogent. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
14117299
Media ID
45847411
Size
7087px x 4724px
(9.3MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2009
