Ripoll
Jean-Charles RIPOLL Concept Artist, Background Designer & Vehicle designer.
Teresa Ripoll uses precious fabrics and superb tailoring to make designs which are feminine and glamorous to make you look and feel like a film star
Image of monestir de Ripoll from the architecture photos of Llorenç.
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Monasterio Ripoll, 1970
Supermodel Nicolas Ripoll stars in Departure story captured by fashion photographer Tomo Brejc and styled by Jacky Tam for GQ China's May 2016 edition.
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Sillares de piedra, apertura de numerosas ventanas mediante arquería de medio punto, verticalidad.
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Wilfred the Hairy (aka Guifré el Pilós), whom we just "met" as the founder of the nearby monastery in Sant Joan de les Abadesses, where his daughter Emma of Barcelona was the first abbess, founded the Monastery of Santa Maria in Ripoll in 879. Here his son Radulf de Barcelona was abbot. This was not only Wilfred´s family business, he was very succesful in the political power game of that time. The first church was consecrated in 888, but as the monastery grew it was "reconsecrated" in 935, 977 and 1032. When Oliba de Besalú, as well a descendent of Wilfred, was abbot here (1008 - 1046), this was a cultural center. More than 250 books were on the shelves of the monastery´s library. The church was the burial place for the Counts of Besalú and Barcelona. Still today many tombs can be found in the transept, including that one of Wilfred the Hairy. The decline started within the 15th century. In 1428 it was severely damaged by an earthquake, the restoration was done in Gothic style. The church got ruined the first Carlist War, the library burnt down, the last monks had left. In 1847 part of the cloister and soon after, the abbot´s palace got demolished. The Bishop of Vic organized the rebuilding, so that the church got consecrated again in 1893. The church of today is vastly a product of the reconstruction of th 19th century, but it may be "near" to the romanesque structure. The famous portal of the church, that of course got damaged, but survived the times is 11,60m wide and 7,25m high. It has lots of scenes, not only from the bible. The original church had a nave and four aisles, roofed by barrel vaults. Nave and aisle ended in five apses. Later the church had even seven apses, when two were added to the transept. It may have been as impressive as the Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse (230kms north), though it was smaller. The current church, now seen from the east, dates to the reconstruction undertaken in 1896, when the structure was in ruins. It has (only) one nave and two aisles, but all seven apses got rebuilt.
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Capitell del claustre de Ripoll Info: www.monestirs.cat/monst/ripoll/rp13mariC1.htm
The Saint Eudald Square is in the center of Ripoll's old town. It is named after the town's saint patron, who had a church dedicated to him on this same square. This church was demolished during the Spanish Civil War.
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