Sant Pere - Tarrasa

The three churches were built close to the placement of old Ègara as see of Ègara Diocese, created about the year 450 and which remained until VIIIth century. The episcopal ensemble follows the Byzantine model of antiquity, with two churches (Sant Pere and Santa Maria) and a baptistery (Sant Miquel). After a long constructive process, the churches are finished in the current manner about the XIth and XIIth centuries and in Romanesque style, are built on old pre-romanesque buildings of the Visigothic time. The walls of Santa Maria keep outstanding artistic pieces, like a museum, there are murals which go from the Romanesque style to the Gothic. There is also an altar stone of Xth century and medieval and romanesque sepulchral stones (in one of them there is written documentation of the name of the Roman town of Egara). In the transept there are three Gothic altarpieces of great value.