Bouleternère (French pronunciation: [bultɛʁnɛʁ] ; Occitan: Bòu; Catalan: Bulaternera) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
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The church of Saint-Nazaire de Barbadell is a disused Romanesque and pre-Romanesque Catholic church in Bouleternère, in the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales.
Probably built before the year 1000, the church of Saint-Nazari developed with the village of Barbadell from the 11th to the 13th centuries, of which it was the parish church. In the 14th century, for reasons that are unclear, Barbadell suffered severe depopulation, eventually disappearing completely in the course of the 16th century. The church of Saint-Nazaire, now an isolated chapel, was not forgotten by the people of Bouleternère, who continued to make donations to it in their wills.
In the 18th century, a succession of hermits took up residence at Saint-Nazaire, maintaining the church and keeping it in worship, thus saving it from the abandonment experienced by many rural churches at the time of the French Revolution. However, this abandonment was only delayed: in the course of the 19th century, the old church changed ownership several times, and was then divided between several properties. It was transformed into a building for agricultural use, and then into a dwelling, which seriously deteriorated it.
The old church has been completely renovated since 1997, when the three owners founded a conservation association to which they bequeathed the building.
In the 21st century, the church regained its medieval appearance. It comprises a rectangular nave oriented west-east, extended by a flat apse whose axis is slightly offset to the south. The walls of the nave are reinforced with double arches and formets supporting a barrel vault. The building is topped by a bell-wall and covered with a slate roof. Traces of 18th-century painted decoration remain on the interior walls.
The church of Saint-Nazaire is surrounded by low walls and ancient canals, showing that the inhabitants of Barbadell have had to battle floods and high water from the river Boulès, on the banks of which this building is built, many times over the centuries.
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The Coll de la Llosa dolmen is a megalithic structure located on the border of the communes of Bouleternère, Casefabre, and Saint-Michel-de-Llotes in the French department of Pyrénées-Orientales in the Occitanie region.
The corridor dolmen is surrounded by a tumulus measuring ten meters in diameter, and is covered with a slab bearing numerous engravings in the form of crosses and cup marks. Its function is probably that of a collective burial of the chamber or corridor type; it dates from the 4th millennium BC, which would link it to the Neolithic culture of the southern Chasséen, well identified in the Pyrénées-Orientales.
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Saint-Michel-de-Llotes is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
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Ille-sur-Têt is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales département in southern France.
Its inhabitants are called Illois.
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Casefabre is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.