REIAL MONESTIR DE SANTA MARIA DE POBLET
Ticket Nº 102436.
The Royal Abbey of Santa Maria de Poblet is a Cistercian monastery, founded in 1151 by monks from France. The main architect was Arnau Bargués. Poblet was one of the two royal pantheons of the kings of the Crown of Aragon since James I of Aragon. Some of the most important royal sepulchres have alabaster statues that lie over the tomb. The kings have lion sculptures at their feet, while the queens have dogs.
The following kings and queens of Aragon are buried at Poblet Monastery: Alfonso II (1196); James I (1276); Peter IV (1387), and his first three wives Maria of Navarre, Eleanor of Portugal, and Eleanor of Sicily; John I (1396), and his wives, Martha of Armagnac and Violant of Bar; Martin (1410), and his first wife, Maria de Luna; Ferdinand I (1416), and his wife, Eleanor of Alburquerque; Alfonso V (1458); John II (1479), and his second wife, Joana Enríquez.
Additional notable figures interred here include the Hungarian queen Beatrice of Naples (1508); Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton (1731); and Archduke Carlos Píus of Austria-Tuscany (1953). The tombs of the royals were restored by the Catalan sculptor Frederic Marés in 1948.
At the height of its splendor, the monastery was home to more than 300 monks and had numerous "Cistercian farms" run by lay brothers who exploited its agricultural land and forests. The monastery buildings occupy about 12,000 m2.
Gràcies a en Josep i l'Assumpta.
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