The ruins of Mare de Déu del Remei d'Argentera

In Vilanova de Meià, Mare de Déu del Remei d'Argentera stands as a relic of a bygone era. Located in the old neighborhood of Argentera, it sits on a plateau at the confluence of the Boix river and the Argentera or Pipó ravine. The church was dependent on the Priory of Meià until the ecclesiastical desamortization. Records from 1068 show that the preacher Eldomar granted his executors the power to distribute his goods, which included half a vineyard and half a mill in Argentera.

The church first appears in a capbreu in 1137 among the properties of the monastery of Santa Maria de Meià, which included mills, gardens, and olive trees in Argentera. The exact timeline of the monastery's donation remains uncertain. Parish functions and the old advocacy were confirmed in 1315 when a visitor inspected the temple and the parish. The church had the church of the place of Gàrzola as a sufragany. In the middle of the 17th century, it was defined as Nuestra Señora de Argentera. Es parroquial.

The church features a single nave covered with a barrel vault of pointed profiles, reinforced by three transverse arches. The oldest part of the preserved construction is the western sector, probably dating from the end of the 11th or early 12th century. The apse and the entire eastern sector were replaced and expanded by the current one, dated to the 13th century, and were later modified with two chapels. Today, the church stands in ruins, with its rough western sector containing a very rustic door and window with a semi-circular arch.

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