Monastery of Sant Joan de les Abadesses

The monastery was founded in 885 by count Wilfred the Hairy, who destined it to the education of his daughter Emma, who later became the first abbess.

Wilfred had previously founded the monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll for his son Radulf.

In 1114 the intervention of the Pope allowed a community of Augustinian canons to take possession of the monastery in a definitive way.

It houses the altarpiece of the White Virgin, executed in 1343 by Florentine artists and the Baroque chapel of the Pains, which is home to a "Pietà" by Josep Viladomat.

Due to its original location in the middle of the monastery, the transept once give access to both the female and the male sectors of the abbey.