The hermitage of Sant Romà stands alone among cultivated fields at the north-eastern edge of Brunyola, near the boundaries with Vilobí d’Onyar and Bescanó. Although its first documentary mention dates from 1279, when it belonged to Brunyola Castle, its construction has been placed in the 10th century, in the early Romanesque period.
The building preserves a rectangular nave and a semicircular apse with a horseshoe plan, while the sacristy, the western porch, the voussoired doorway and the bell gable are later additions. Its strength does not come from monumentality, but from its bare presence in the landscape: stone, fields and silence in the service of very early Romanesque architecture.
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