Sant Just i Sant Pastor de Son, 11th-12th century
(SPACE TO VISIT IN THE SUMMER SEASON)
A monument complex formed by the Romanesque church and bell tower (11th-12th century) and the semi-cylindrical communal tower, probably erected in the 17th century on the remains of a Romanesque tower, of which the Romanesque ashlars can be seen.
The documents found from the 19th and 20th centuries refer to the “communal tower or town hall”. Crowning the communal tower is the roof on four sides with the small clock tower, where the hour and quarter-hour bells are located.
Above a weather vane with the figure of Saint George killing the dragon can be seen:
The bell tower
The Romanesque bell tower has four separate floors with Lombard-style arches and lesenes.
The mullioned windows on the second floor and the trifurcated ones on the third and fourth floors complete this magnificent 11th century bell tower, currently crowned by an octagonal roof.
The temple
The temple is a single-nave building with a ribbed roof. The semi-circular apse contains Lombard style decoration, with arches and lesenes, as well as three double-frame windows.
The fonts
Inside, there are 4 Romanesque fonts: a baptismal one, supported by three decorated feet and a plant decoration:
A large oil font with a decoration of human figures:
Another oil font decorated with leonine figures:
And a holy water font from the old sanctuary of the Mare de Déu de Bellero, now lost.
The altarpiece
Inside the temple there is also a magnificent 15th century, Gothic altarpiece. Most of the compositions are the work of Pere d’Espallargues, an outstanding master painter from the Pyrenees at the end of the 15th century.
The central theme deals with the martyrdom of saints Justo and Pastor. It is one of the few Gothic altarpieces preserved “in situ” in the Catalan Pyrenees.