Besalu, church of saint Vincent dressed |romanica|

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Besalu, church of saint Vincent dressed |romanica|

the church of saint Vincent, founded also for the overseer-become a bishop watched in 977. The current building is treated of a Romanesque construction of transition to the Gothic, with tower of the XVI century and a magnificent head that keeps an apse with Lombard curvatures and get along with elbow rests. stand out the rose window of the main facade and the door of midday, those of saint Raphael, with capitals sculptured with motive orientals. In the inside, we cannot lose us the high altar, with a Gothic tomb of Pere of Rovira, who brought Besalú the relics of the saint martyr Vincent. The dressed |romanica| counts with two archivolts the decorated exterior with a turned helicoidal and the framed inside with palmettoes and the figure of a lion to each side. The capitals remember to the sculptural school of Ripoll.

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