Sant Pere de Rodes monastery

Main sights: Cenobi of which we already have news in 878, when it was a humble monastic cell. During the first half of the 10th century, it was already an independent abbey. In the 11th and 12th centuries the monastery adopted its main configuration, although it was the subject of successive reforms throughout its long history, which ended in 1835 when it is definitively abandoned, due to looting and confiscation. The most important element of the monument is the church, a key work and unique of its kind within the Catalan Romanesque. The central nave of the basilica is of exceptional decorative richness and grandeur. The capitals, of the caliphal type, are of the Corinthian tradition or with interlacing and are considered among the best sculptural pieces of the 11th century. Also noteworthy are the defensive tower (10th century, reformed 14th century) and the bell tower (end of the 11th century) as well as the 2 superimposed cloisters and the remains of pictorial wall decoration