The Romanesque masterpiece village in the Pyrenees — Sant Climent de Taüll (1123 CE) with Europe's finest Pantocrator fresco, Boí-Taüll ski resort, and the Aigüestortes national park
Taüll is a tiny stone village in the Vall de Boí (Boí Valley) of the Lleida Pyrenees — at 1,490m in the Alta Ribagorça comarca, 3km above the village of Boí, at the edge of the permanent snowfields of the Pyrenean crest. The village contains two of the finest Romanesque churches in Europe: Sant Climent de Taüll (consecrated 1123 CE) and Santa Maria de Taüll (consecrated 1123 CE, one day after Sant Climent). The Romanesque art programme of the Vall de Boí churches — nine churches in the valley consecrated within a 20-year period in the late 11th and early 12th centuries, all by the same worksh…
The Vall de Boí Romanesque church-building programme (nine churches, 1060–1123 CE) was a concentrated episode of religious patronage by the local nobility (the Erill family, lords of the valley) and the Bishopric of Urgell — the churches were built within a generation of each other using the same workshop of Lombard masters, producing a stylistic consistency that makes the valley's Romanesque programme unique in Europe. The Lombard masters (from the Como lake district of northern Italy, the source of the Lombard Romanesque style that spread across southern France and the Pyrenees in the 11th…