The Monastery of San Daniel (Catalan: ''Monestir de Sant Daniel'') is a religious complex in

Girona Girona (officially and in Catalan language, Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter River, Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in ...

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a ''nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...

, northern

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. It was founded in the early 11th century by will of countess

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, who wanted to found a nunnery here. The church, based on that of the monastery of Sant Pere de Galligants, with the addition of a

transept A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. In cruciform churches, a transept is an area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform ("cross-shaped") building withi ...

, was later renewed. It has a cloister with two floors, the lower from the 13th century (with Romanesque decorations) and the upper, in Gothic style, from the 15th century. It has double columns with

Corinthian capitals The Corinthian order (Greek: Κορινθιακός ρυθμός, Latin: ''Ordo Corinthius'') is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of Ancient Greek architecture and Roman architecture. The other two are the Doric order w ...

. Artworks include the sepulchre of St. Daniel, whose remains, according to the tradition, were brought here from

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. It dates to 1345 and was executed by sculptor

Aloi de Montbrai Aloi de Montbrai was a 14th-century Catalan sculptor of French (perhaps Norman) origin. He is documented in Catalonia in the years between 1337 and 1368, working for the royal court of the Kingdom of Aragon. In 1337 he received from Peter IV o ...

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* {{coord, 41, 59, 18, N, 2, 50, 00, E, region:ES-B_type:landmark_source:kolossus-cawiki, display=title Buildings and structures completed in the 11th century Buildings and structures in Girona

Daniel Daniel is a masculine given name and a surname of Hebrew origin. It means "God is my judge"Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 68. (cf. Gabriel—"God is my strength" ...

Romanesque architecture in Catalonia