The abandoned Romanesque church hidden in the hills of Spain

Sant Climent de Castelltort is a Romanesque-style church in the municipality of Guixers (Solsonès), protected as a locally important cultural asset. It's located at the foot of the serra dels Bastets, on a hill to the left of the confluence of the rasa dels Forats with the Aigua de Valls, currently flooded by the dam of La Llosa del Cavall. To reach it, you would need to cross the dam's queue with a boat and disembark at the bottom of the cove of the rasa.

The hill is to the right. In Romanesque style, only a stone rough window remains, with a double frame and a semicircular arch edged with stones on the outside and remnants of the pillars and the capitals from which the pointed vault started. There is a noticeable stone block reused in the walls, possibly a lintel originally, carved with two overlapping circles, with six flower petals inscribed. The motif is also commonly used in medieval art and has pre-Romanic origin.

It is often found in items of funerary character such as sarcophagus and steles or baptismal crosses; the flower may allude to the soul, just as the number 6 or 12 which is related to salvation. Sant Climent de Castelltort was abandoned in the 18th century when the New Church of Sant Climent de Castelltort was built.

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