The present images are a small sample that we can find if we pay attention to the churches and monasteries distributed by the whole Catalan geography. Around the year 1000, the styles and the effective constructive methods until then, the Visigothic with Roman base, the Mozarabic one and the Carolingius, they consolidate in an autochthonous style, fruit, and in turn instigator, of the character and the evolution of these people.

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Santes Creus (Tarragona) Sta. Margarida (Girona) Sta. Coloma (Andorra) St. Pere de Rodes (Girona)
Although some of the images belong to key monuments to understand the romanesque art in Catalonia, the approaches to realize the images have been completely subjective, although not only aesthetics. It is necessary to contact with the stone, to feel the spirit of the buildings, for, front the necessity of to be part of their reality, to shoot the camera.
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Sta. Maria de Vallbona (Lleida) Sta. Maria de Vallbona (Lleida) Santes Creus (Tarragona) St. Cristòfol de Beget (Girona)

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