2026World Heritage - Monastery of Santa María de Poblet, Tarragona - Miniature Sheet

In the mid-12th century, the Count of Barcelona, Ramon Berenguer IV, offered some land in Conca de Barberà (Catalonia) to the Cistercian monks of the monastery of Fontfreda, near Narbonne, to found a monastery. In 1153, the community of Poblet was fully established, with its first abbot. Construction soon began.