Sant Joan de Sispony

A small Romanesque church in the hamlet of Sispony in the La Massana valley, preserving the simple stone architecture typical of medieval Andorra. Its plain nave and modest bell wall reflect the rural building traditions of the high Pyrenees. Interior wall paintings and a carved altar survive from earlier centuries in some of these valley churches. Set amid meadows below the peaks, it is one of many Romanesque chapels that make up the principality's rich stock of early religious architecture.