On December 10 and 11, 1123, the bishop of Roda-Barbastro, Ramon Guillem, consecrated the churches of Sant Climent and Santa Maria de Taüll, two jewels of the Romanesque for their architecture and for their wall paintings, mostly preserved in the Museum National Art of Catalonia (MNAC), registered in the UNESCO World Heritage along with the rest of the Romanesque churches of the Vakde Boí. Responding to the request of the town hall of the Vall de Boí and the World Heritage Consortium of the Vall de Boí, the Ministry of Culture will start on December 9 the events of the Taüll Year, the commemoration of the 900 years of the consecration of the temples, which coincides with the centenary of the transfer and installation of the paintings in the MNAC.
The restoration of the Sant Climent de Taüll bell tower and its exterior paint that will reveal what it looked like 900 years ago, with a white tone and geometric decorations in red and the installation of a video mapping on the exterior of the bell tower that will cover two faces and the apses , accompanied by a soundtrack, is the star performance. He will project what the bell tower looked like 900 years ago, made of white stone, with red decorations.
Technicians from the (CRBMC) have started preventive conservation work this week. Visitors who go to Sant Climent de Taüll these days will not see the videomapping of the apse but rather scaffolding on which they will work on the pictorial layers or on the disinfestation of the pieces.
The mayoress Sònia Bruguera, the general director of Patrimonio Cultural, Sònia Hernández, and the curator of Año Taüll, the historian and archaeologist Eduard Riu-Barrera presented this Wednesday the program that has a global investment of 1.1 million euros. It includes the restoration of the two 12th century stone lipsanotecas that originally belonged to the first altar of the Romanesque temple of Sant Climent and which are currently in the facilities of the Furniture Restoration Center of Catalonia (CRBMC) or the restoration of a painting original of the interior of Santa María are some of the performances he has presented.
Sònia Hernández, has agreed with Sònia Bruguera that the Year of Taüll should serve for the visitor to rediscover the churches and their paintings. For the mayoress, it is important that the performances continue to allow us to look at the temples "with a new perspective".
The Any Taüll, with the rank of national commemoration, includes an action plan in conservation and monumental restoration of Romanesque churches, musealization and research and dissemination throughout 2024.
In the field of research, actions linked to artificial intelligence and the creation of the Taüll Archive are planned, an online repository that will collect all the graphic and written documentation of the interventions carried out since the 19th century.
Over the course of the next year, initiatives will be added. As the closing of the Domènech i Montaner Year and the beginning of the Taüll Year, the Vall de Boí will host the traveling exhibition "Domènech i Montaner, World Heritage". In search of lost national art", produced by the Department of Culture with the collaboration of the Canet de Mar City Council. From March, the Vall de Boí Romanesque Center will offer a new route as part of its regular guided tours: the 900 year route.
Another of the planned activities is a unique concert by the Ponent Lleida Canta choir meeting, on Sunday, April 28. Under the motto Lleida sings for the Romanesque, around thirty choirs will be distributed throughout the different churches of the Boí Valley to unite music, Romanesque and heritage.
