page_title: Sant Serni de Tavèrnoles
section_title: Church
hierarchical_section_title: Sant Serni de Tavèrnoles / Church
caption_attribution_description: Español: Naves del monasterio de Sant Sadurní de Tavèrnoles en Anserall de la comarca del Alto Urgel en Cataluña (España) This is a photo of a monument indexed in the Catalan heritage register of Béns Culturals d'Interès Nacional and the Spanish heritage register of Bienes de Interés Cultural under the reference RI-51-0000695.
context_page_description: Sant Serni de Tavèrnoles is a Romanesque Benedictine monastery in Anserall, in the municipality of Les Valls de Valira, Alt Urgell, in the Province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
  It became a Bien de Interés Cultural site on 3 June 1931 and was restored in 1971.
context_section_description: The monastery church was constructed as a T-shaped basilica with its nave and adjoining aisles separated by pillars. All that remains of the original building is the western end which unusually has an  apse. The only example of its kind in Catalonia, it is in line with the Carolingian tradition. The main apse opens into three smaller apses, symbolizing the Trinity. The remains of the transept can still be seen but there are only a few small vestiges of the nave and the aisles. The nave was covered with barrel vaulting while the lateral aisles had quarter-circular vaults. There are still traces of the base of the primitive steeple but nothing is left of the cloister which was akin to that in the Cathedral of Santa Maria d'Urgell.
  The church's baldaquin and 12th century altarpiece depicting bishops with halos are preserved in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.
caption: Remains of the nave
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