Sant Esteve de Banyoles

Sant Esteve de Banyoles is a Benedictine monastery in Banyoles, Pla de l'Estany, Catalonia, Spain. It become d as a Be Cultural d'Interes Nacional landmark in 1973. The monastery changed into based before 812. The monastery changed into founded earlier than 812. The first record of a record written within the monastery is dated 822 by the abbot, Bonitus. Bonitus' successor turned into Abbot Mercoral. The first population of Banyoles settled around the monastery and remained for hundreds of years beneath the feudal electricity of the abbot. The buildings of the monastery were destroyed several instances in the course of its history.

In the 10th century, the primary church of the monastery become destroyed after being attacked through Saracen troops. In 957, the bishop of Girona, Arnulf, devoted a new temple, with 3 apses. In the 11th century, Sant Esteve become again destroyed, and then rebuilt, with a new consecration in 1086. The whole building became also stricken by the earthquake that devastated the place in 1427 and 1428. In 1655, the bell tower and the cloister had been destroyed. In the 17^th century, restoration work befell. Between 1692-99, a brand new steeple become constructed. The building's first documented cloister is dated 1086 and became in Romanesque fashion. The nave consists of a triple apse. The the front, built inside the 16^th century, is in past due Gothic fashion, at the same time as the rest of the building is of 17th-century Neoclassical style.