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Sant Vicenç d’Obiols is a curious and little-known pre-Romanesque hermitage, although it has undergone different reforms, located at the top of a hill and surrounded by anthropomorphic graves, between Gironella and Avià, in the Berguedà region.
In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we have paid a visit to this temple that stands on a sandstone platform on the right bank of the Llobregat river.
The church and the necropolis that surrounds it are the central element in a small esplanade that houses three other buildings: the Obiols house, the Rectory and a haystack. The entire complex is built directly on the natural rock.
The church is the result of different construction stages, with pre-Romanesque (plan) and Romanesque (enclosing walls and fragment of the pointed vault) elements.
As observed in the report, the hermitage preserves the necropolis surrounding the head and the southern part of the church and even with tombs inside the temple.
The church and place of Obiols were ceded to the monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll by count Guifré el Pelós on a date prior to the year 888.
Sant Vicenç d’Obiols has a single nave. Currently, it is covered by a concrete truss that imitates its pre-Romanesque, wooden. Instead, the head and the arms of the transept are covered with stone vaults.
