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Sant Miquèu de Vilamòs

Type: Chapel
Century: XI
Architectural sytle: Romanesque Lombard
Village: Vilamòs
Municipality: Vilamòs

Chapel of the XI century, built in Lombard Romanesque style, 15 min. walk from the town of Vilamòs.

This is a small Romanesque building situated on a promontory from which you get magnificent views over the Garonne river, the Artiga Lin, and Aneto massif.
According to tradition, in this place had existed a village, considered the oldest in the valley.
It has a single nave with a barrel vault, under a gabled roof, composed of large slabs. To the east the building finishes with a semicircular apse decorated with blind arcades lombard style, and a freeze of saw teeth. The walls retain the original lime revoked.