Sant Climent de Taüll

Sant Climent, at the entrance to Taüll, is the church of the Pantocrator: its painted apse, the original, is in the MNAC in Barcelona, and here you see it through a video mapping that projects it onto the wall in its place. It is the best-known piece of the Romanesque ensemble of the Vall de Boí, a World Heritage Site, and the one most people look for on arriving in the valley.

Closed this winter

From 30 November 2026 it is closed to the public for roof conservation works, expected to last until the end of spring 2027. During that time there are no guided visits inside either. Until 29 November it is open Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 19:00 and on Sunday from 10:00 to 14:00; admission costs €5, €3 for groups of 15 or more and €2 for schoolchildren. You can still see it from the outside: the bell tower can be seen from all over the village and the walk from the plaça de Santa Maria is short.

If you go in winter, the alternative inside Taüll is Santa Maria de Taüll, consecrated a day later and with free admission.

What you see inside

It was consecrated on 10 December 1123, according to the record painted on one of its columns, on an earlier eleventh-century church. It has a basilica plan, with three aisles separated by columns, a gabled wooden roof and three apses decorated outside with Lombard arcading and sawtooth friezes. The bell tower, square in plan at the south-east corner, has six storeys of windows that widen as they rise, which lightened the weight and allowed it to be built higher.

The wall paintings were removed between 1919 and 1922. In the central apse what you see today is, above all, a projection: the Mapping Taüll 1123 combines the image of the Pantocrator preserved in Barcelona with the fragments that remain on the wall. Among the originals that remain, attributed to the Master of Taüll around 1123, are Cain killing Abel, with the inscription "ABEL", a figure playing a trumpet and the animals coming to drink at the fountains in the south apse.

Inside there are also three wooden carvings (a Christ Saviour of the thirteenth century, a Christ on the cross of the twelfth and a Virgin and Child), the reproduction of a presbytery bench whose original is in the MNAC and two lipsanothecas, travertine reliquaries found in 2010 beside the altar and on display since 2024.

The video mapping

Showings start at 10:15, 11:00, 12:00, 12:45, 13:30, 16:15, 17:00, 17:45 and 18:30; at Easter, in July and in August they add 19:00 and 19:30. The centre does not publish how long each showing lasts. Plan your visit to go in a few minutes before one of them.

How to combine it

Tickets are bought on the Centre del Romànic booking website or at the door. In Erill la Vall, the Centre del Romànic and Santa Eulàlia explain the ensemble, and in Boí there is Sant Joan. For lunch in Taüll, El Caliu is at the edge of the village, on the way to the pistes.