The abbey of Saint-Martin-du-Canigou (Catalan: Sant Martí del Canigó) is a monastery built in 1009 in the Pyrenees of Northern Catalonia on Canigou mountain in present-day southern France near the Spanish border. Pau Casals wrote a composition entitled "Sant Martí del Canigó" for Orchestra. The monastery is located on the territory of the commune of Casteil, in the Pyrénées-Orientales département. The original Romanesque style monastery was built from 1005 to 1009 by Guifred II, Count of Cerdanya (Fr. Cerdagne), in atonement for the murder of his son and was populated by Benedictine monks. More information...
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