Ripoll MonasteryMonestir de Santa Maria de Ripoll Ripoll, Spain
Ripoll Monastery is a Romanesque Benedictine monastery founded in 888 by Comte Guifré el Pilós (Count Wilfred the Hairy). He saw the monastery as a means of repopulating the region of Ausona after many years of battle left the region mostly abandoned, Frankish Christians re-took the area from the Arabs in 879. It became the main religious center of Catalonia for 500 years, known for its monastic school and scriptorium.
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s/n Pl. de L'abat Oliba
17500