Travel Reference
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12. Sant Pau del Camp Church
Església de Sant Pau del Camp is a monastery that is thought to have been founded in the 9th
century. When it was first constructed, it was some way outside of the city in a rural location
that provided the monks with the solitude that they were searching for. An attack in 985 all
but destroyed the structure, and led to it being abandoned by the monks who'd long called
it home. 1096 saw a new monastic community moving in and starting the process of restor-
ation. 1114 saw yet another attack on the monastery, but restoration started just three years
later. Through the decades, as the area was built up, the monastery gradually became envel-
oped by the flourishing municipality of Barcelona. By the 14th century it was now protected
by the confines of the city, and was declared to finally be a national monument in 1879.
