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In Sant Jaume de Frontanyà we find a fantastic example of the Romanesque with this beautiful church, an example of Lombard architecture in the purest and most genuine style, with proportionate volumes and shapes.
In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can admire both its exterior and interior in this series of photographs that bring us closer to one of the best examples of Romanesque art in Catalonia.
It is a church with a Latin cross plan, with a nave, three semicircular apses and a dome. It was built in this area of Alt Berguedà in the 11th century.
The history of the canonical church of Sant Jaume de Frontanyà begins in the primitive church of Sant Jaume de Frontanyà Vell, located on a ridge near the town.
From 1140 until the 16th century, it brought together a community of Augustinian canons. Of the original complex, only the church has survived, since the old monastic dependencies that existed were lost, when the rectory was built in the 17th century, nowadays demolished.
One of the elements that stands out the most is that, under the roof of the dome, with twelve sides and unique in Catalonia, there is a frieze of blind windows.
