Seu d'Urgell

Up in the Pyrenees, in a lush valley with the Segre flowing down from the high mountains, lays La Seu d'Urgell, a bishopric since the VIth century, with a magnificent romanesque cathedral dating from the XIIth century, solid, sober and imposing, the fourth to be built on the site. There, protected by these mountains, in these deep valleys, Christendom resisted the Arab onslaught. A string of romanesque churches, nestled in the mountain slopes, testify to the presence of these christian communities, who once belonged to the Carolingian empire. This is where modern Catalonia was born, close to France, far from Spain.