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Andorra

Tradition present: Catholicism

Five places written in Andorra. Each carries its history, architecture, site and orientation, festivals, and the way to get there.

Places
5
written
Traditions
1
present
Regions
3
regions, cities
English
5
pages translated

IPlaces Written

All 5 pages now have an English version.

By region
Catholicism · Andorra la Vella · thế kỷ 10 hoặc sớm hơn (gian thờ tiền Roman), tháp chuông tròn thế kỷ 12Church of Santa Coloma d'AndorraEsglésia de Santa Coloma, Santa Coloma d'Andorra, Church of Santa Coloma d'Andorra, Iglesia de Santa Coloma

One of the oldest churches in Andorra, with a pre-Romanesque nave dating from the 10th century or earlier and mentioned in the Act of Consecration of Urgell Cathedral. The church is famed for its 12th-century Lombard circular bell tower rising 17.75 meters high, a rare form in Andorra. Its Romanesque frescoes painted around 1150 to 1160 by the Master of Santa Coloma were removed in the 1930s and returned to Andorra in 2007.

Bé d'Interès Cultural (Cultural Heritage of Andorra, July 16, 2003)Carrer Major, s/n, Santa Coloma, AD500 Andorra la Vella

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Photo: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Catholicism · Canillo Parish · Nhà thờ Romanesque gốc thế kỷ 12 cải tạo thế kỷ 17 (cháy đêm 8 rạng ngày 9 tháng 9 năm 1972); vương cung thánh đường mới do kiến trúc sư Ricardo Bofill thiết kế khánh thành ngày 8 tháng 9 năm 1976Sanctuary of Our Lady of MeritxellSantuari de Nostra Senyora de Meritxell, Basílica Santuari de Meritxell, Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Meritxell

The National Shrine and Catholic Minor Basilica of the Principality of Andorra in the parish of Canillo, honoring Our Lady of Meritxell (Patroness of Andorra since 1873) and uniting the restored twelfth-century church ruined by fire in 1972 with the 1976 black-slate and white-arch sanctuary designed by Ricardo Bofill.

Papal Minor Basilica (elevated by Pope Francis on May 13, 2014), National Sanctuary of Andorra, and Cultural Heritage Monument of Andorra (Bé d'Interès Cultural, 2003)Carretera General 2 (CG-2), Meritxell, AD100 Canillo, Principality of Andorra

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Photo: MARIA ROSA FERRE, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Catholicism · Andorra la Vella · Khởi nguyên hậu kỳ Romanesque thế kỷ 11 tới thế kỷ 12 (vòm hậu cung bán nguyệt Lombard nguyên bản); mở rộng và tái thiết gian chính cùng tháp lối vào năm 1940 theo thiết kế của kiến trúc sư Josep Puig i CadafalchChurch of Sant Esteve, Andorra la VellaEsglésia de Sant Esteve d'Andorra la Vella, Parish Church of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr in the Barri Antic

The historic parish church at the heart of the Barri Antic old quarter of Andorra's capital city alongside Casa de la Vall, preserving the largest twelfth-century Lombard Romanesque semicircular apse in Andorra united with the 1940 granite nave and entrance tower designed by renowned Catalan architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch.

Cultural Heritage Monument of the Principality of Andorra (Bé d'Interès Cultural, declared July 16, 2003)Plaça del Príncep Benlloch, Barri Antic, AD500 Andorra la Vella, Principality of Andorra

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Photo: MARIA ROSA FERRE, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Catholicism · Canillo Parish · Xây dựng vào khoảng cuối thế kỷ 11 tới đầu thế kỷ 12 (niên đại bức phù điêu vữa thạch cao Chúa Kitô trên Thánh giá thế kỷ 12 và tranh thờ gỗ Phục hưng của Bậc thầy Canillo năm 1525)Church of Sant Joan de CasellesEsglésia de Sant Joan de Caselles, Romanesque Church of Saint John the Evangelist at Canillo

An eleventh- to twelfth-century Pyrenean Romanesque stone church perched on a rocky spur above the Valira d'Orient river in Canillo, celebrated for its five-story Lombard bell tower standing detached from the nave wall, its in-situ twelfth-century polychrome stucco relief of Christ in Majesty framed by Calvary frescoes, and its 1525 Renaissance altarpiece by the Master of Canillo.

Cultural Heritage Monument of the Principality of Andorra (Bé d'Interès Cultural, 2003) and UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List (Romanesque Churches of Andorra)Carretera General 2 (CG-2), Caselles, AD100 Canillo, Principality of Andorra

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Photo: Angela Llop, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Catholicism · Ordino Parish · Khởi dựng theo lối Romanesque thế kỷ 12; mở rộng và xoay trục sang hướng bắc - nam vào thế kỷ 17 và thế kỷ 18; phát hiện bộ bích họa Romanesque cuối thế kỷ 12 của Bậc thầy La Cortinada vào năm 1968Church of Sant Martí de la CortinadaEsglésia de Sant Martí de la Cortinada, Church of Saint Martin of Tours in the Ordino Valley

A historic parish church in the village of La Cortinada in Andorra's Ordino Biosphere Reserve, uniting a twelfth-century Romanesque chapel preserving in-situ murals by the Master of La Cortinada (discovered in 1968) with a seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Baroque nave housing four gilded wooden altarpieces, local Pyrenean wrought-iron grilles, and a wheel chime of bells.

Cultural Heritage Monument of the Principality of Andorra (Bé d'Interès Cultural, declared July 16, 2003)Carretera General 3 (CG-3), La Cortinada, AD300 Ordino, Principality of Andorra

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Photo: Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

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