Poblet Monastery / Monestir de Poblet [Ecclesiastical Authority]
- Country
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- Spain
- Member Category
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- Other
- Heritage Site
- Member Status
- Individual
- Year of Accession to Membership
- N/D
- Contact Details
- Reial Monestir de Santa Maria de Poblet (Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet)
Plaza Corona de Aragón, 11
ES-43448 Poblet
Tel: +34 977 87 00 89
Website: www.poblet.cat
Email: visita[at]poblet.cat
- Contact Person
- N/D
- Main Town/Region
- Vimbodí i Poblet (Tarragona, Catalonia)
- Site Town/Region
- Vimbodí i Poblet (Tarragona, Catalonia)
- Main GPS Location
- 41.380740, 1.081721
- Site GPS Location
- 41.380740, 1.081721
- UNESCO World Heritage List
- Poblet Monastery (1991) (whc.unesco.org/en/list/518)
- European Heritage Label
- N/D
- Other Heritage Labels
- N/D
- Description
- The Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Poblet was founded by Ramón Berenguer IV of Barcelona and handed over to Cistercians in 1149. The Monastery was the royal burial site for the Crown of Aragon from the end of the 14th century. After 1930’s a community of monks began to inhabited again the complex.
- Logos/Pictures
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