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Sant Jaume de Queralbs

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One-storey building, covered with slightly pointed barrel vault and crowned with a semicircular apse. Due to its characteristics, its origins date back to the 12th century, as a result of the rebuilding of the primitive consecrated church in 978.
During the XV and XVII centuries some modifications were made, such as the extension of the central nave with two chapels, the construction of a sacristy with chapel and the construction of a bell tower crowned by a small bell.
The porch that covers the southern wall, made up of six half-pointed voussoirs resting on five columns, constitutes the group one of the best examples of porch of the Catalan Romanesque. Figures represent fantastic animals, stylized leaves, scrolls and some human head. The columns are made of marble with blue-white veins while the capitals and arches are of compact limestone.
From the entrance to the church, opened with a single arch, include their wooden doors, which still retain remnants of the original tool.
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