Monestir de Poblet, the church

The church has a plan of basilica with 3 naves and 7 spans and a broad transept on which opens two apsidal chapels and the bedside formed by a déambulatoire. It was built between 1166 and 1198, measurement 85 meters length on 28 top.

The abbey church is long and narrow. The septentrional nave and the déambulatoire preserved their original roof which is not yet of Gothic style, contrary at the southernmost nave which has a splendid intersecting ribs. In the déambulatoire, with the back of the furnace bridge, beautiful éclatoirs which one finds a little everywhere. Presence thus of an important energy.

of everywhere on the stones, the concise signs compagnonic.

With the XIV ème century, the Copons abbot modified the southernmost side aisle to add the 7 vaults. It is him also which made build the lantern which is with the crossing of the transept.

The abbey door tombs of 8 kings d' Aragon and counts de Barcelone on 13 who éxisté, of 6 queens the, many ones infants and princes.

We will not finish the visit without speaking about what always made the size of the abbeys… I want to speak about that:

Benoit, when it made his rule, wanted to add the fact that the monks did not have the right to drink wine. It is the only time, under the pressure of his/her companions, whom it had to make reverse gear!