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Encyclopedia Britannica



MANRESA

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 598 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAL-MAR
MANRESA , a town of north-eastern Spain, in the province of Barcelona, on the river Cardoner and the Barcelona-Lerida railway. Pop. (1900), 23,252. Manresa is the
chief
  town of the highlands watered by the Cardoner and upper Llobregat, which meet below the town, and are also connected by, a canal 18 m. long. Two bridges, one built of stone and dating from the Roman period, the other constructed of iron in 1804, unite the older and' larger part of Manresa with the modern suburbs on the right bank of the river. The principal buildings are the collegiate church of Santa Maria de la Seo, the Dominican monastery, and the church of San Ignazio, built over the cavern (cueva santa) where Ignatius de Loyola spent most of the year 1522 in penitentiary exercises and the" composition of his Exercftia spiritualia. Santa Maria is a fine example of Spanish
Gothic
 , and consists, like many Catalan churches, of
nave
  and- chancel, aisles and ambulatory, without transepts. One of its
chief
  treasures is an exquisite 15th-century Florentine altar frontal, preserved in the sacristy. The Dominican monastery, adjoining the cueva santa, commands a magnificent view of the Montserrat (q.v.), and is used for the
accommodation
  of the pilgrims whoyearly visit the cavern in thousands. Manresa has important iron-foundries !and, manufactures of woollen,
cotton
  and linen goods, ribbons, hats,
paper
 , soap, chemicals, spirits and flour. Building-stone is quarried near the town.
Manresa is probably the Munorisa of the Romans, which was the
capital
  of the Jacetani or Jaccetani, an important tribe of the
south
 -eastern Pyrenees. A large portion of the town was burned by the French in 1811.


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