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I share in La Vanguardia Readers' Photos this series of photographs of the chapel of Santa Anna de Gurb, in the Osona region, wrapped in this sky of brick clouds.
The church of Santa Anna de Mont-ral has been documented since 1190, when the knights Guillem, Bernat and Pere de Mont-ral with their respective wives and children gave the chapel to the bishop of Vic and the priests and brothers of the brotherhood of Santa Mary, who had great vitality during the 13th and 14th centuries.
In 1273 the altars of the temple's titular saints were Santa María, Santa Ana and the Holy Spirit and it was not until the 15th century when the invocation of Santa Anna was imposed.
San Anna de Mont-ral is located in the elongated mountain range that extends between the C-17 highway and the urban area of Gurb, northeast of Mont-ral and southwest of Martinencs.
The temple is built with plastered stone masonry walls and is made up of a single nave covered with a barrel vault.
It would therefore be a Romanesque building from the end of the 12th century, where the apse would have been transformed into a transept. On one of the stones of the door jamb there are two engraved and quite eroded drawings: the representation of a knight and a geometric motif.
One of the most characteristic elements of the church is the belfry bell tower with four semicircular arch eyes placed on two levels. It is built with worked stone blocks and is crowned by several geometric elements and an iron cross.
