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Monestir de Santa María de Ripoll
Placa Abat Oliba,
Barcelona
Cataluña
Spain
Type: Religious Site
Hours: open 10 am-1 pm and 3-7 pm.
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Barcelona
Cataluña
Spain
Type: Religious Site
Hours: open 10 am-1 pm and 3-7 pm.
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Ripoll was the original seat of the fiefdom that consolidated what is modern day Cataluña. It was established by Guifé el Pilos (Wilfred the Hairy) after the Moors had been pushed out of the region at the end of the ninth century by a Frankish army from the northern Pyrenees.
Thanks to the establishment of self-rule under the legendary and heroic Wilfred, Cataluña was poised to develop into one of the great maritime kingdoms of the early Middle Ages. The remains of Wilfred, who is said to have had hair everywhere he houldn’t have, are housed in the Monestir de Santa María de Ripoll, which he founded in the ninth century.
An early 19th-century fire wiped out most of the original construction, though the library and the 12th-century Romanesque portal survived. The rest fell to the whims of the 19th-century architects who restored it, somewhat distastefully.
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