Santa Eulàlia d'Arròs

Type: Church
Century: XII-XVIII
Architectural style: Romanesque – Gothic
Vielha: Arròs
Municipality: Vielha e Mijaran

It is a continuation of the Gothic transition of the 14th century with posterior restorations.

The octagonal bell tower with nearly flat covering is a singular example in all of the Valle de Aran.

It has only one nave and a double barrel vault with four side chapels which were later added and disfigure the ancient construction.

The church conserves a Romanesque baptismal font from the 12th century and a silver Gothic processional cross.

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Sant Martin de Arró

Type: Church
Century: XI,XVII-XVIII
Architectural Style: Baroque
Village: Arró
Municipality: Es Bòrdes

This Romanesque church is very disfigured by the reforms

The bell tower, of 1784 , is square west i octagonal top. In one of the side walls is an inscription ” Turris svpra montem sa fut indissolvbili bitvmine data vallo ” .

It has a single nave and side chapels , the dome is semicircular and the presbytery is emmarcado for arch and cross vault .

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Sant Fabian de Arres de Jos

Type:Church
Century:XI
Architectural Style: Lombardo Romanesque
Village: Arres de Jos
Municipality: Arres

The Romanesque Sant Fabian church is quite small. Built in the 11th century it is one of the oldest of the valley.

It has one interior nave previously covered by a barrel vault and currently with a wooden frame.

It has conserved many of the initial Romanesque characterisitics. It has Lombard decorated absides and there is a pillar inserted in the western side wall with three human busts in relief.

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Santa Maria d'Arties

Tipe: Church
Centuries: XXI, XV, XVI
Architectural Style:Romanesque-Gothic-Renaissance
Village: Arties
Municipality: Naut Aran

The church of Santa Maria de Arties represents one of the standards of Aranese Romanesque architecture. The building has a basilica-type triple-nave ground plan, originally headed by three apses, of which only the sides remain. The central nave has a barrel vault where structural damage caused openings in the vault, still evident in the falling pilasters; the repair work conducted in 1999 solved these problems.
It retains two access facades, one in the south wall and the other facing north. The facade that opens north, without a tympanum, has six vaulted semicircular decreasing arches, with chequered decorative motifs and semispherical buttons. The door that leads south, to the cemetery, is based on three semicircular decreasing arches.
To the west there is a five-storey belfry with a pyramidal roof; Its style straddles Romanesque and Gothic, which means that it was possibly built in the 13th and 14th Centuries.
The mark left by the Gothic epoch in Santa Maria de Arties is magnificently embodied in the wall paintings of the roof of the presbytery and an altarpiece only recently restored by the Servicio de Conservación de Bienes Muebles de Sant Cugat. The 15th-Century altarpiece represents different bible scenes of the Virgin Mary, and is a masterpiece of Gothic Painting.

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