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Description
From Valls a secondary road leads 18km/11mi north to the Cistercian monastery of Santes Creus, founded in 1157. The Romanesque church (1254) with its fortress like facade and octagonal tower over the crossing, contains the handsome tombs of a number of kings of Aragon, including Pedro III and Jaime II and his wife Blanche of Anjou.
Hobbies & Activities category: Architecture - Romanesque;  Town walls, fortifications, gates;  Christian sites;  Architecture - Baroque or Rococo;  Tombs, burial site
Attractions within Monasterio de Santes Creus

Interior

The monastery has two cloisters - the Gothic New Cloister, with finely carved capitals and a simple fountain-house, and the Romanesque Old Cloister, entered from the northwest corner of the New
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Address
Monasterio de Santes Creus
Plaza Sant Bernat
Tarragona
Spain
Hours
March 16 to September 15
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Open10:3010:3010:3010:3010:3010:3010:30
Closed13:3013:3013:3013:3013:3013:3013:30
Open15:0015:0015:0015:0015:0015:0015:00
Closed19:0019:0019:0019:0019:0019:0019:00
September 16 to January 15
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open10:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:00
Closed13:3013:3013:3013:3013:3013:3013:30
Open15:0015:0015:0015:0015:0015:0015:00
Closed17:3017:3017:3017:3017:3017:3017:30
January 16 to March 15
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
Open10:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:0010:00
Closed13:3013:3013:3013:3013:3013:3013:30
Open15:0015:0015:0015:0015:0015:0015:00
Closed18:0018:0018:0018:0018:0018:0018:00
Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1)
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Tips
Free admission on Tuesdays.
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