La iglesia del monasterio de Sant Pere de les Puel·les a través de la visita pastoral de la abadesa Violant d’Espés (1585-1587)

Abstract

The church of the convent of Sant Pere de les Puel·les (Barcelona), consecrated in 1145, is one of the few Romanesque churches preserved in Barcelona and, unfortunately, a building little studied due to the profound transformations that it underwent in the 19th and 20th centuries. A pastoral visit to the church and to the two sacristies carried out by Abbess Violant d’Espes in 1585-1587 allows us to appreciate the spaces, the furniture and fi ttings and the rich liturgical objects of the Romanesque church in detail and, at the same time, to understand the scope of the architectural interventions that modified the structure of the church in the 15th century.