Monastery Porta Ferrada, Sant Feliu de Guíxols

The complex’s most prominent exterior features in Sant Feliu de Guíxols are the Porta Ferrada, a horseshoe-shaped Romanesque facade which dates from the ninth and tenth centuries, and the ornate Baroque Arc de Sant Benet, built in 1747, standing alone in front of the monastery. Built in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries on the site of an earlier Romanesque construction, the church (daily 8–11am) has a broad Gothic nave and three polygonal apses, crowned by beautifully intricate keystones.Within the monastery, the Museu d’Història de la Ciutat houses an exhibition on Sant Feliu’s cork industry and archeological finds discovered in the monastery.

Monastery Porta Ferrada Photos

Arc Sant Benet, Monestir Porta Ferrada

Inside Porta Ferrada, Sant Feliu de Guíxols

Porta Ferrada, Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Costa Brava

Monestir de Porta Ferrada, Sant Feliu

Monasterio medieval de Porta Ferrada, Sant Feliu

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