11 Sights in el Pont de Suert, Spain (with Map and Images)
Explore interesting sights in el Pont de Suert, Spain. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 11 sights are available in el Pont de Suert, Spain.
List of cities in Spain Sightseeing Tours in el Pont de Suert1. Església Vella
The Old Church, also known as the Assumption or Saint Mary's, was the parish church of Pont de Suert, until 1955, when the New Church was built. Currently the church building houses the Collection of the Sacred Art Museum of Ribagorça. In the small square in front, there is the old medieval cemetery, now buried, and the Abbey Palace of the Abbots of Santa Maria de Lavaix, a fifteenth-century building, where the bell tower of the church is located, simple, with a square tower with four windows and pyramid roof. Only the bells ring on the Night of San Juan, on June 23, during the descent of the Fallas from the Faro. It has two original altars, dedicated to Saint Anne and Saint Sebastian. The most famous work is the virgin of La Mola, highly revered in the village, from the thirteenth century and polychromed, from the hermitage of La Mola, in Buira, in Aragon.
2. Santa Maria de Lavaix
Santa Maria de Lavaix was a Romanesque Benedictine monastery in Pantà d'Escales in the municipality of El Pont de Suert, Alta Ribagorça, Catalonia, Spain. It was first mentioned in the 10th century. In the 13th century it fell under the Barony of Erill and in 1223 it became a Cistercians’ abbey. By the beginning of the 19th century it had declined and was finally shut down during the Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizábal in 1835. Upon the construction of the Escales Dam in June 1955, the old monastery was flooded and little remains other than the walls and traces of the northeast angle of the nave.
3. Sant Fruitós
Sant Fruitós de Perves is the old Romanesque parish church of the village of Perves, of the old district of Viu de Llevata, currently belonging to the municipality of Pont de Suert. It almost does not retain anything in the Romanesque temple, as it was completely remodeled in the Baroque period. Only the documentation allows us to date it at that time, since it has been documented since the 11th century. It was one of the possessions of the monastery of Santa Maria de Lavaix. It is a building protected as a cultural asset of local interest.
4. Santa Maria de Viu de Llevata
Santa Maria de Viu de Llevata is the Romanesque parish church of the village of Viu de Llevata, in the municipality of Pont de Suert. The church is arranged on a slope of the land, it is of a single nave closed at the head by a semicircular apse followed by Lombard arches such as those that articulate the walls of the building, especially the south façade, facing the slope, in which the access to the church is organized It is a monument declared a cultural asset of national interest.
5. Santa Maria d'Erillcastell
Santa Maria d'Erillcastell is a church in the municipality of Pont de Suert. It was the parish church of the village of Erillcastell in the old municipality of Malpas in the eleventh century. Nothing remains of the Romanesque church, documented since the end of the twelfth century: the current church, now abandoned, is a modern building, without the remains of the original temple seeming to remain. It is a protected building as a cultural asset of local interest.
6. Sant Gil
Sant Gil de Pinyana is a Romanesque church in the municipality of Pont de Suert. It is the old parish of the village of Pinyana, in the old municipality of Viu de Llevata. The small nucleus of Pinyana is located at an altitude of 1284 m. It was traditionally linked to the municipality of Viu de Llevata, but together with other small towns in 1968 it was incorporated into Pont de Suert. It is protected as a cultural asset of local interest.
7. Santa Maria de Corroncui
Santa Maria de Corroncui is the old Romanesque perroquial church of the village of Corroncui, in the old municipality of Viu de Llevata, currently belonging to the municipality of Pont de Suert. It was located in the place known as Corroncui vell, east of the current core of Corroncui, under the Molar Rock.
8. Santa Maria de Sarroqueta
Santa Maria de Sarroqueta is a church in the municipality of Pont de Suert. It is located in the village of Sarroqueta de Barravés, in the old municipality of Llesp, and is suffragan of the parish of Sant Martí de Llesp. It is a protected monument as a cultural asset of local interest.
9. Sant Esteve
Sant Esteve d'Igüerri is the church of the village of Igüerri, in the old municipality of Llesp, currently belonging to the municipality of Pont de Suert, suffragan of the parish of Santa Maria de les Neus d'Irgo. It is a protected monument as a cultural asset of local interest
10. Sant Climent
Sant Climent d'Iran is the church of the people of Iran in the eleventh century of the old term of Llesp, currently belonging to the term of Pont de Suert. She is a suffragan of the parish of Our Lady of the Snows of Irgo.
11. Santa Maria de Corroncui (nova)
Santa Maria de Corroncui II is the new Romanesque perroquial church of the village of Corroncui, in the old municipality of Viu de Llevata, currently belonging to the municipality of Pont de Suert, in the Alta Ribagorça.
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