Reial Santuari del St. Crist de Balaguer

The Sant Crist de Balaguer is a sanctuary and basilica of Balaguer. The church changed into constructed in the 17^th century in the equal area in which there has been a Romanesque church, and even before a mosque. The building is of cultural interest, and has a contemporary facade in a neo-classical fashion, underneath the route of the architect Bernat Pejoan. The sanctuary is dedicated to the photograph of the Holy Christ , its principal advocacy, the customer saint of Balaguer and the Terres d'Urgell, even though it radiates its impact past the Comarques de Ponent and the Pyrenees to other lands of Catalonia and Aragon.

In the Sanctuary the gothic image of Santa Maria d'Almata is also worshiped, a stature that become invoked by means of the Counts of Urgell all through the recapture. The pageant of the Holy Christ is widely known on November 9th. In the indoors of this Royal Sanctuary there is a crucial nave with facet chapels. From the main altar there are stairs that rise up to the photo of the Holy Christ, a duplicate of the gothic photograph that changed into lost inside the Civil War in 1947. On the right aspect of the principle altar there's the chapel of the Sisters Clarisses, in which the photograph of the Virgin of Almata is stored. In one of the chapels you can nevertheless see stays of the ancient church of Almata.