Santa Eulàlia de Unha
Santa Eulària de Unha
Church of Romanesque origin, faithful to the architectural configuration of the style with its three-nave basilica plan, the central semicircular vault and the side quarter-sphere vaults. To the east there are three apses decorated in the Lombard style and in the NW corner the addition of a bell tower from the 18th century.
The church of Unha is the only one in the Val d’Aran that preserves its Romanesque wall paintings, located in the hemisphere of the central apse. These paintings show fragmentarily what would have been the figure of the Pantokrator (whose face has been preserved), located inside the mandorla and surrounded by the Tetramorph.
The presence of mural painting does not end here, since samples belonging to the 16th century have recently been discovered and restored where, based on the sequence of scenic framings, the episodes take place Biblical images of Jesus’ prayer in the garden of Jethsemane, the kiss of Judas, the scourging, Pontius Pilate washing his hands, the road to Calvary, the Crucifixion and the Last Judgment with the Glorified Christ.
THE Romanesque legacy of the church of Santa Eulària is also revealed through the presence of its baptismal fonts.
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