The royal abbey of Creus Health

The abbey of Creus Health has one of the shémas of construction the most succeeded of architecture cistercian. The distribution of spaces marries perfectly the ideal plan of the monastery Bernardin. The church is leaned with the northern wing of the cloister, as in the majority of the cistercians abbeys.

We penetrate in the first enclosure by a gate decorated in the style baroque It is in this enclosure that lived the major part of the laic servants of the abbey.

Royal porch we accèdons with the second enclosure. Inside, the fountain and the frontage of the principal church, the abbey one.

The visit of the abbey starts directly with the principal cloister. It is of Gothic style and its construction of made on the site of an old Romance cloister whose only galleries is and northern were finished.

Work started in 1313 on order of the king Jacques II, eager to enrich the monastery which was going to be its mausoleum.

But its construction advanced really only since 1331, under the direction of an important architect and sculptor of English extraction, Reinard of Fonoll.

It was to finish its work later 10 years, and vraissemblablement let us retrrouvons we it represented on one of the capitals, holding company with an ox/bull (Mithra?)