Stock photography picture of Capitals The Cloister Monastery of Sta Maria Ripoll Girona Spain

B0FW9R - Licenced Caption Capitals The Cloister Monastery of Sta Maria Ripoll Girona Spain Description Cloister Capitals. The Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll is a Benedictine monastery, built in the Romanesque style, located in the town of Ripoll in Catalonia. It was founded by the count Wilfred the Hairy (called Guifré el Pilós in Catalan) in 879, who used it as a centre to repopulate the region after conquering it. The monastery became the family mausoleum for the Catalan counts, and well as a great center of learning, with a large library. Keywords Europe, Spain, Girona, Architecture, Romanesque, Religion, Catalunya, Monasteries, Landmarks