Santes Creus: The Other Cistercian Pantheon
Catalonia, Spain
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Santes Creus: The Other Cistercian Pantheon
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Santes Creus is the second of the three great Cistercian houses of the Catalan Ruta del Císter, with Poblet and Vallbona, and the one with the finest Gothic cloister — built by the English master Reinard de Fonoll with Guillem de Seguer after James II had the Romanesque cloister pulled down to make room for it. Peter III the Great asked to be buried here and the royal pantheon was built for him in the 13th century; his son James II and James's queen Blanche of Anjou lie here too. James also turned the abbot's rooms into a royal palace, and Peter IV walled the whole place. The monastery is unusual in having a village living inside its walls, in the buildings the community left behind.
Required Activities
1
of 5
Walk the Gothic cloister and work out how much carving a Cistercian house was supposed to permit
2
of 5
Find out who Reinard de Fonoll was, what an English mason was doing in 14th-century Catalonia, and what was demolished to let him build
3
of 5
Find the royal pantheon built for Peter III the Great, and the tombs of James II and Blanche of Anjou
4
of 5
Find the abbot's rooms James II turned into a royal palace, and the walls Peter IV threw round the lot
5
of 5
Do the Ruta del Císter properly and add Poblet and Vallbona de les Monges
Walk the Gothic cloister and work out how much carving a Cistercian house was supposed to permit
Find out who Reinard de Fonoll was, what an English mason was doing in 14th-century Catalonia, and what was demolished to let him build
Find the royal pantheon built for Peter III the Great, and the tombs of James II and Blanche of Anjou
Find the abbot's rooms James II turned into a royal palace, and the walls Peter IV threw round the lot
Do the Ruta del Císter properly and add Poblet and Vallbona de les Monges
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