Poblet Monastery

The Royal Abbey of Santa Maria de Poblet (Catalan: Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Poblet) is a Cistercian monastery. The abbey is located at the feet of the Prades Mountains, in the comarca of Conca de Barberà, in Catalonia (Spain). It was founded in 1150 by Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona. It was the first of three monasteries that made up the "Cistercian triangle". The other two were Vallbona de les Monges and Santes Creus. The main architect was Arnau Bargués. Burials The following kings and queens of Aragon are buried at the Poblet Monastery: Alfonso II (1196) James I (1276) Peter IV (1387), and his first three wives Maria of Navarre, Eleanor of Portugal, and Eleanor of Sicily John I (1396), and his wives, Martha of Armagnac and Violant of Bar Martin (1410), and his first wife, Maria de Luna Ferdinand I (1416), and his wife, Eleanor of Alburquerque Alfonso V (1458) John II (1479), and his second wife, Joana Enríquez Images References Other websites Monestir de Poblet Official website Adrian Fletcher's Paradoxplace Poblet Pages (photos) Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine Monestirs de Catalunya. Poblet (in Catalan) Poblet photos Archived 2014-04-24 at the Wayback Machine