Monastery of Sant Pere de Casserres

The old Benedictine monastery of Sant Pere de Casserres is on the inside bank of a very pronounced meander in the Ter River, currently half surrounded by the Sau Reservoir. Casserres was an ancient castle of the Viscounts of Osona-Cardona, where the church of Sant Pere is already cited in the mid 10th century. The viscounts founded the monastery. The Viscountess Ermetruit caused works to begin in 1006, and in 1015, under the protection of the Viscountess Eugóncia and her son Bermon, the community was formed and the great basilica seen today was built, consecrated in 1050. The monastery’s endowment was extended to take in various neighbouring villages. In 1080 it was joined to Cluny and lost its original category of an abbey to become a priory. The monastery was the most important possession of Cluny in Catalonia; much lands and several churches were dependencies of Sant Pere de Casserres, as well as the two small priories of Sant Pere de Clarà (in the Maresme region) and Sant Ponç de Corbera (in the Baix Llobregat region). Pedro de Luna, the future Benedicto XIII, was invested as Prior Commendatary of Casserres in 1376. The monastery began to go into decline in the 14th and 15th centuries, and was secularized in 1572. Thus, its assets went to the Jesuit College of Bethlehem in Barcelona, to which it belonged until the disbanding of 1767. After this it was sold to the owners of the Pla de Roda. Today, the Romanesque church is intact with three naves and three apses, one of the masterpieces of the Catalan Romanesque, by the side of a solid bell tower. The majority of the original monastic rooms and the cloister also remain. An earthquake in 1428 caused the vault of the north nave to fall and destroyed the cloister. In 1998 the restored monastery was inaugurated.

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