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Santa Eulària de Unha is a church of Romanesque origin, faithful to the architectural configuration of the period,
with its basilical three-nave ground plan, the central one with semicircular vault and the side naves with quarter
sphere; to the East, three apses decorated in the Lombardy style; finally a belfry was added in the NW angle in the
18th Century.
To begin with, the church of Unha is the only church in the Aran Valley
which conserves its Romanesque wall paintings, located in the semi-sphere of the central apse. These paintings have
fragments of what the figure of the Pantocrator would have been (the face is conserved) located in the mandorla and
surrounded by the Tetramorph.
The presence of wall paintings does not finish here; paintings from the 16th Century were recently discovered and
restored, sequentially depicting the biblical episodes of Jesus praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, Judas' kiss, the
scourging, Pontius Pilate washing his hands, the road to Calvary, the Crucifixion and the Final Judgement with Christ
Glorified.
The Romanesque legacy of the church of Santa Eulària can also be appreciated through the presence of its
baptismal fonts. Of the two it conserves, one is a plunging-type baptismal font, and might have been a reused
sarcophagus. The other baptismal font, with basin and support leg, reproduces the same archaism and decoration motifs. |