Santa Maria

The Collegiate Basilica of Santa Maria, additionally called La Seu, is a Romanesque-Gothic church in Manresa, Catalonia, north of Spain. The church of Santa Maria is documented from the year 890. In 999 the edifice changed into devastated by means of troops of Al-Mansur, as well as the whole city. In one thousand depend Ramon Berenguer I of Barcelona, collectively along with his mom Ermesinde and Oliva, bishop of Vic, determined to refurbish the church.
Today only scanty remains are preserved of this Romanesque shape, and of its pre-Romanesque forerunner, along with columns inside the gallery,presenting columns with capitals having vegetable and geometrical motifs, and a 12^th -century portal. During the 14th century, Manresa underwent a massive growth, and a brand new Gothic shape was thus introduced above the pre-current church. Construction commenced in 1322, beneath design by using architect Berenguer de Montagut, who had been formerly operating at Santa Maria del Mar in Barcelona. The first stone became located in 1328 but works dragged on into the 15^th century and later.