Santa Cecília de Bolvir

Santa Cecília de Bolvir

Church located in Bolvir, protected as a cultural asset of local interest (BCIN). Romanesque church with a single nave, long and relatively narrow, with two side-by-side chapels in the form of a cross. The apse, with a very sharp triumphal arch, is semicircular, ornamented with small corbels that visually support the roof. The apse has a facing of well-worked ashlars up to the cornice, where it continue with cut stone, and where in its center there is a semi-circular window. The cornice, ornamented by interlocking teeth, rests on modules of human heads. The vault is slihtly pointed and cemented. Santa Cecília is the parish church of
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  • Church located in Bolvir, protected as a cultural asset of local interest (BCIN). Romanesque church with a single nave, long and relatively narrow, with two side-by-side chapels in the form of a cross. The apse, with a very sharp triumphal arch, is semicircular, ornamented with small corbels that visually support the roof. The apse has a facing of well-worked ashlars up to the cornice, where it continue with cut stone, and where in its center there is a semi-circular window. The cornice, ornamented by interlocking teeth, rests on modules of human heads. The vault is slihtly pointed and cemented. Santa Cecília is the parish church of Bolvir. In the 10th century the place had been a possession of the Cuixà monastery. The first date is from the 9th century and was given to the Monastery of Sant Miquel de Cuixà in 952 by Sunifred II of Cerdanya. Possession confirmed by Pope John XIII in 968 and also reconized in 1268 in the agreement made with intervention of Ramon Penyaford, between the Bishop of Urgell and the Abbot of Cuixà.

     

    This church was restored in 1928-1929. In the Museum of Art of Catalonia, the altar frontal from this church is preserved, with passages from the life and martyrdom of Saint and her husband, the patrician Valerià, from the 12th-13th centuries.

    Cerdanya



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