Església de Sant Pere de Galligants

Ramon Berenguer III, count of Barcelona, funded the church's construction with a bequest of two hundred morabatins written into his 1131 will, and the building rose in the following decades in the Lombard Romanesque style, the church finished before the cloister began around 1154. The cloister's capitals carry a sculptural program close to workshops at Ripoll and Serrabona: pairs of confronted lions, sirens and birds carved against a distinctive helical background. The monastery declined from the 15th century, and in 1592 Pope Clement VIII merged it with two other failing Benedictine houses, Sant Miquel de Cruïlles and Sant Miquel de Fluvià. It served for a time afterward as a Civil Guard barracks, before restoration work in the 1970s converted the buildings into the museum galleries seen today.