Casbas Monastery

The Benedictine community of women formally came under the auspices of the Cistercian order in 1196, recognized as such by Pope Celestine III.

The church was built in a late Romanesque style with a barrel vault over the nave.

The Latin cross plan ends in an extended apse with two side chapels.

[5] The Romanesque portal of the church (c. 1200), off of the south transept, has a Chrismon on the tympanum with 11 archivolts extending from it.

[6] A surviving altarpiece of Saint Ursula (c. 1300) can be visited at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (cat.