Monastère Saint-Clément de Reglella

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The monastery Saint-Clément de Reglla, or Reguleille, is a former Romanesque monastery in ruins located at the place Reglla, in Ille-sur-Têt, in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales.

Location: The ruins of the monastery Saint-Clément de Reglla are located in Ille-sur-Têt, in the current French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales. It is located about 1.5 km from the village of Ille, in the Tet River valley. A small road leads there.

History: The monastery was founded in the early ninth century, probably by religious fleeing Muslim Spain. It is mentioned in 844 in a precept of immunity of Charles le Chauve, in which the small size of the monastery is already raised (use of the diminutive cellula instead of the word cella which designates in Latin a sacred place). The monastery cannot develop and becomes a parish church dependent on the monastery Saint-André-de-Sorède (state confirmed by an act of 1121). In the 13th century, the building has a crenelated tower. The church is also reinforced by a fortified enclosure. The old monastery, partially ruined, was inscribed as a historical monument in 1993.