Qualla: Poblet Abbey https://qualla.com/poblet-abbey en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/g/poblet-abbey-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Poblet Abbey https://qualla.com/poblet-abbey Poblet Abbey: Introduction https://qualla.com/poblet-abbey/ Photo credit José Luiz, CC BY-SA 3.0. Peter IV of Aragon made every future king swear an oath: they would all be buried at Poblet. Only one broke the promise. Ferdinand II, having merged Aragon with Castile, chose Granada instead - a political statement disguised as a funeral preference. The rest kept their word, and for three centuries the alabaster tombs accumulated beneath the vaults of this Cistercian monastery at the foot of the Prades Mountains. Lions crouch at the feet of the kings. Dogs lie at the feet of the queens. The distinction mattered to the medieval mind, and at Poblet, medieval minds built something that endured far longer than the kingdom that created it.

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/g/poblet-abbey-wp/sp2g-poblet-abbey-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Poblet Abbey: The Cistercian Triangle https://qualla.com/poblet-abbey/ Photo credit Danielbaise, CC BY-SA 4.0. Poblet was founded in 1151 by Cistercian monks from France, the first of three sister monasteries - along with Vallbona de les Monges and Santes Creus - that formed what became known as the Cistercian Triangle. These three foundations helped consolidate Christian power in Catalon...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/g/poblet-abbey-wp/sp2g-poblet-abbey-the-cistercian-triangle.mp3 0:06 2 full Poblet Abbey: Where Kings Rest https://qualla.com/poblet-abbey/ Photo credit Angela Llop, CC BY-SA 2.0. The royal connection began with Alfonso II, who died in 1196 and was the first Aragonese king interred at Poblet. James I the Conqueror followed in 1276, then Peter IV in 1387, along with his first three wives - Maria of Navarre, Eleanor of Portugal, and Eleanor of Sicily. John I...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/g/poblet-abbey-wp/sp2g-poblet-abbey-where-kings-rest.mp3 0:06 3 full Poblet Abbey: The Mob and the Silence https://qualla.com/poblet-abbey/ Photo credit Angela Llop from Spain, CC BY-SA 2.0. The First Carlist War had already damaged the monastery when, in 1835, the Spanish government's Ecclesiastical Confiscations under Mendizabal delivered the final blow. On 24 July, government representatives and mobs descended on Poblet. They stripped the abbey of its paintings an...

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]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/g/poblet-abbey-wp/sp2g-poblet-abbey-the-mob-and-the-silence.mp3 0:06 4 full Poblet Abbey: Return of the Monks https://qualla.com/poblet-abbey/ Photo credit Pap3rinik, Public domain. In 1940, Italian Cistercian monks refounded Poblet, and the long process of reconstruction began. Close to the church entrance, one building has been deliberately left in its ruined state - a reminder of what happened when the monastery was unprotected. The royal remains were ret...

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