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Chapterhouse
This perfectly square VisiToRs’ CheCklisT
room, with slender
columns, has tiers of Practical Information
benches for the monks. Off N240, 10 km (6 miles) from
It is paved with the Montblanc, Tarragona. Tel 977 87
tombstones of 11 00 89. open 10am–12:30pm (to
abbots who died 12:25 Sun), 3–5:25pm or 5:55pm
between 1312 daily. Closed 1 Jan, 25 & 26 Dec.
and 1623. & 8 5 8am Mon–Sat, 10am,
1pm & 6pm Sun & pub hols. ^
- _ Festival Música Antigua
(mid-Aug). ∑ poblet.cat
Transport
£ L’Espluga de Francolí, then
taxi. @ Tarragona.
. Altarpiece
Behind the stone altar, supported
by Romanesque columns, an
impressive alabaster reredos fills
the apse. It was carved by Damià
Forment in 1527.
. Royal Tombs
The tombs in the pantheon of
kings were begun in 1359.
. Cloisters In 1950 the sculptures were
The evocative, vaulted restored by Frederic Marès.
cloisters were built in the
12th and 13th centuries and
were the centre of monastic
life. The capitals are
beautifully decorated with
carved scrollwork.
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