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The church of Santa Maria is documented from the year 890. During the 14th century, Manresa underwent a large expansion, and a new Gothic structure was thus added above the pre-existing church.The crypt was built in 1578, followed by the Chapel of the Holiest in 1657. The bell tower, with a quadrangular shape, dates to 1592, while the Baroque cloister was built in the early 18th century.
The Collegiate Basilica of Santa Maria, also known as La Seu, is a Romanesque-Gothic church in Manresa, Catalonia, north of Spain.
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The bridge has suffered several destructions. It is a faithful reconstruction of a medieval bridge also rebuilt in the twelfth century, of which only the bases of the central arch are preserved. The bridge, which was destroyed in 1939 and rebuilt between 1960 and 1962
Cova de Sant Ignasi
is a sanctuary declared as a Local Cultural Heritage that includes a baroque church and a neoclassical building in Manresa (Catalonia), which was created to honor the place where, according to tradition, Saint Ignatius of Loyola shut himself in a cave to pray and do penance during his sojourn in the city from March 1522 to February 1523, where he wrote the Spiritual Exercises returning from his pilgrimage to Montserrat.
The Manresa Regional Museum is a pluridisciplinary museum. Medieval ceramics painted in green and purple from the 14th century, polychrome carvings from the Baroque period of the 17th and 18th centuries, a fine archaeological sampling of objects from the Neolithic Period up to Romanisation and different religious objects from the 10th and 16th century. There is also a space dedicated to modern and contemporary art with an impressive collection of dioramas and paintings by Josep Mestres Cabanes, set designer for the Gran Teatre del Liceu, and paintings and engravings by Alfred Figueras.
Dr. Valentí Masachs Alavedra was its first curator. His private collection of fossils and minerals and the samples gathered by the museum’s staff were used to set up the first mineralogical and paleontological displays with which the Museum was opened to the public.