Église Sainte-Marie de Panissars

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Sainte-Marie de Panissars is a former Roman Catholic priory built in ruins at the Panissars pass, on the border between Spain and France, in the eastern Pyrenees. It depends on the municipalities of Perthus, in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales and La Jonquera, province of Girona, in Spain. It is built on the site of the trophy of Pompey and reuses some stones.

Description: The ruins of the monastery of Santa Maria de Panissars are on the same border, in the Coll de Panissars. The only remaining structures are some walls and the apse of the church. The semicircular apse keeps the vault in quarter of a sphere. It preserves part of the amounts of the triumph arch. There's also a window. In the apse, there are remains of paint and you can see white, red and yellow colors. Around the church are 4 remains of a one metre high wall; in some of them, you can see sons of opus spicatum. The apparatus consists of rough stones which adopt at certain points inclined shapes in opus spicatum.