Sant Pere de Graudescales is a Romanesque Benedictine monastery in La Valldora, in the municipality of Navès,

Solsonès Solsonès () is a comarca (county) in Catalonia, Spain. It is part of historic county of Urgell Modern-day Urgell (), also known as ''Baix Urgell'' (''baix'' meaning "lower", by contrast with Alt Urgell "Higher Urgell"), is a ''comarca'' (c ...

, in the

Province of Lleida The Province of Lleida (; Aranese Occitan: Lhèida ; es, Lérida ) is one of the four provinces of Catalonia. It lies in north-eastern Spain, in the western part of the autonomous community of Catalonia, and is bordered by the Provinces of ...

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 ...

, Spain. It lies to the north of Navès and west of

Berga Berga () is the capital of the ''comarca'' (county) of Berguedà, in the province of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is bordered by the municipalities of Cercs, Olvan, Avià, Capolat and Castellar del Riu. History Berga derives its name from ...

. It was consecrated in 913 by the

Bishop of Urgell The Diocese of Urgell is a diocese in Catalonia (Spain) and Andorra in the historical County of Urgell,

. From the fifteenth century it was used as a parish church until 1837 when it was abandoned and gradually fell into ruin. Sant Pere de Graudescales was excavated and restored during the second half of the 20th century.

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Monestir de Sant Pere de Graudescales
- Monestirs de Catalunya {{coord, 42, 06, 08, N, 1, 41, 21, E, display=title Benedictine monasteries in Catalonia Romanesque architecture in Catalonia