Poblet Monastery
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How it came to be
In 1151 Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona, founded and endowed the monastery of Poblet. Its first monks were Cistercians from France, and at its height it housed more than 300.
At his coronation Peter IV (1319 to 1387) required a solemn oath that all the kings of Aragon be buried at Poblet. Alfonso II (died 1196), James I (died 1276), Peter IV, John I, Martin, Ferdinand I, Alfonso V and John II (died 1479) lie here, making it one of the two royal pantheons of the Crown of Aragon. Ferdinand II later broke the oath and was buried in Granada.
The monastery was closed in 1835 under Mendizábal's confiscation of church property, and on 24 July that year government agents and mobs plundered it and set parts on fire. It was declared a national monument in 1921, rebuilding began in 1930, and Italian monks of the same order restored monastic life in 1940. The sculptor Frederic Marès restored the royal tombs in 1948, and the monastery was inscribed in 1991.
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