03 — ARTWORK
Exterior view
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- TYPE
- Religious
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Today no more than a ruin, the Abbey of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa was one of the most important building complexes in the MozarabicSpanish style of art and architecture influenced by Islamic styles. style dating from the tenth century. Major extensions both eastwards by the addition of a new chancelinterchangeable with choir, sometimes the area in front of the altar. area, and also at the west end by a new façadethe front or principal face of a building, especially one elaborately constructed; a blind façade is a façade that is purely decorative and does not relate to the structure of the building. with two towers completed the church by 1040.
View the ground plan of Saint-Michel-de-Cuxa, Codalet.
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title = {Exterior view by ARCHITECT, Catalan},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
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