Graubünden - Culture of Construction

A Carolingian church in a lonely position above the Albula gorge, built around 800 or a bit earlier on the former foundation walls of an older sacral construction. Oldest and best preserved complex of the Rhaetian tri-apsidal hall type. Originally a women’s cloister, first mentioned in ...
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Located in the south-east of the village. May have been founded in the early Middle Ages. Mentioned 1156 when the patronage was transferred to the Cloister. Fell more and more into disuse in the 16th century. Renovation 1919. Restoration and archaeological studies 1969-71. The square ...
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On the east slope of the Casté Tuma (hill) lies the first parish church of Ems and one of the few remaining Carolingian sacred buildings in the Grisons. It was built after 774 and for the most part was built on the former foundations of a pre-Carolingian building. To the north of the chap ...
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A group of buildings with a tower keep, built and modified across twelve centuries; the most significant church construction before the turn of the millenium in Switzerland; has unique wall frescoes from the Carolingian era and an exceptional collection of furnishings. A Unesco World Her ...
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The two-storey ‘Holy Cross’ Chapel lies south of the cloister church, in front of the south-east corner of the cloister square. The only remaining Carolingian cross-conch construction in Switzerland. Built at the same time as the cloister church at the end of the 8th century (dendro d ...
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Part of the Benedictine Cloister St. John the Baptist (UNESCO World Cultural Heritage). Largest tri-apsidal church of the ‘Chur-rhaetian tri-apsidal scheme’: a type of construction that has been found and identified in many excavations throughout the Grisons. Only two examples (here and in ...
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In the part of S. Vittore called Pala, lies a picturesque group of houses and hidden away there is the small chapel. The building consists of an almost square chapel with a rounded arris on the south-eastern corner, which stands a bit higher on a boulder; restored between 1979-86. This curious ...
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On the eastern edge of the village is the ruin of the church, Sogn Murezi. Sogn Murezi was mentioned in 1398 as the parish church, but has most likely been a ruin since the 16th century. Foundations of an early mediaeval square building with a tri-niche closure from the 6th or 7th century, a tri-aps ...
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