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The Benedictine Monastery of Ripoll, originally founded in 880 by Count Wilfred the Hairy, using it to help repopulate the region after his conquest. It became the mausoleum for the Catalan counts and a center of learning with a scriptorium and large library, remaining the main religious center of Catalonia until the 15th century. The ""new"" church consecrated in 1032.
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Ripoll, Spain
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Ripoll Monastery of Santa Maria, portal, sculpture, atlantid, beast, zodiac, roundels, Corinthian, capital, jamb, columns, Romanesque
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