Listed below are examples of surviving buildings in Romanesque style in Europe, sorted by modern day countries.

List

Austria

Gurk Cathedral, Carinthia

Belgium

Collegiate Church of Saint Gertrude, Nivelles
Collegiate Church of Saint Hadelin [fr], Celles

Croatia

Czech Republic

St. George's Basilica, Prague
St. Bartholomew's Church in Prague-Kyje

France

St-Sernin basilica, Toulouse, 1080 – 1120: elevation of the east end
Romanesque sculpture, cloister of St. Trophime, Arles
Romanesque abbey church of Jumièges, Normandy

Romanesque architecture expands in France through monasteries. Burgundy was the center of monastic life in France - one of the most important Benedictine monasteries of medieval Europe was located in Cluny. Pilgrimages also contributed to expansion of this style. Many pilgrims passed through France on their way to Santiago de Compostela.

Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe

French Romanesque schools of architecture, which are specific for every region, are characterised by the variety of stone vaulting.

Germany

Romanesque St. Michael's Church (1010-33) in Hildesheim – a World Heritage Site
Romanesque portal of Schottenkirche, Regensburg

Hungary

The Romanesque church of Lébény

Ireland

Carving above doorway, Clonfert Cathedral, Co. Galway, Ireland

Italy

In Italy, the prevalent diffusion is in Lombardy, in Emilia - Romagna, in Tuscany, in the continental part of Veneto and in Apulia; everyone of these "Romanesque styles" has proper characteristics, for constructing methods and for materials. For example, a characteristic of Romanesque is that to change the classic elements with Christian elements, but in Tuscany and Apulia the classic decoratings remain.

Materials depended from the local disponibility, because the importation was too expensive. In fact, in Lombardy the most used material is ceramic, because of the argillous nature of the terrain; but that is not true for Como, where there were large diponibility of stone; in Tuscany buildings in white marble (from Carrara) are frequent, with inserts of green serpentin marble.

In Lombardy and Emilia, in that age united, in Romanesque epoque there was a great artistic flowering. The most monumental churches and cathedrals are often built with the campata system, with varying columns which weigh a tutto sesto arcos. In plain the material of construction is prevalently the mattone, but buildings in stone do not lack. The greater part of the Roman cities along the via Emilia is equipped in this age of monumental cathedral, between which they already maintain to the medieval system.

Abruzzo

Abbey of Sant'Antimo

Aosta Valley

Emilia-Romagna

Piacenza Cathedral

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia

Latium

Lombardy

Basilica of San Lorenzo, Milan

Marche

Ancona Cathedral

Piedmont

San Secondo (Magnano)

Puglia

Basilica of St. Nicholas
Trani Cathedral

Sardinia

Sicily

Abbey of the Santo Spirito, Caltanissetta

Tuscany

San Miniato al Monte
Abbey of San Galgano

Umbria

Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi
San Francesco, Terni
Church of San Silvestro (Bevagna)

Veneto

Basilica di San Zeno, (Verona)

Netherlands

Munsterkerk in Roermond, The Netherlands

Poland

St Peter and Paul-Collegiate, Kruszwica
St. Andrew's Church, Kraków
Collegiate church, Tum
St. Mary Magdalene Church, Wrocław

Portugal

Façade of the Old Cathedral of Coimbra (Portugal, second half of the 12th century).

Romania

Serbia

Slovakia

Spišská Kapitula.

During the time of early Christianity every 10 villages were ordered to build a church. Several rotunda have been built in this time.

Spain

Castle of Loarre, Huesca
San Juan de la Peña, Huesca
Collegiate church of Santillana del Mar, Spain. Cloister
Saint Clement of Taüll in Catalonia, Spain. Lombard Romanesque
Sant Pere de Rodes, Girona
Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos, Spain. Capitel detail
San Isidoro, León
San Martín de Tours de Frómista
Cathedral of Zamora
Inner view of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Crypt of the Monastery of Leyre, Navarra

Main article: Romanesque architecture in Spain

Before Cluny`s influence, Romanesque first developed in Spain in the 10th and 11th centuries in Catalonia, Huesca and the Aragonese Pyrenees, simultaneously with the north of Italy, into what has been called "First Romanesque" or "Lombard Romanesque". It is a primitive style whose characteristics are thick walls, lack of sculpture and the presence of rhythmic ornamental arches.

Romanesque architecture truly arrives with the influence of Cluny through the Way of Saint James pilgrimage route that ends in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela. The model of the Spanish Romanesque in the 12th century was the Cathedral of Jaca, with its characteristic apse structure and plan, and its "chess" decoration in strips called taqueado jaqués. As the Christian kingdoms advanced towards the South, this model spread throughout the reconquered areas with some variations. Spanish Romanesque was also influenced by the Spanish pre-Romanesque styles, mainly the Asturian and the Mozarab. But there is also a strong influence from the moorish architecture, so close in space, specially the vaults of Córdoba`s Mosque, and the polylobulated arches. In the 13th century, some Romanesque churches were built with early Gothic architectural elements. Aragón, Catalonia, Castile and Navarra are the areas where numerous examples of Spanish Romanesque can be found.

Aragon

Province of Zaragoza

Province of Zaragoza

Cantabria

Catalonia

Province of Barcelona

Province of Lleida

Province of Girona

Province of Tarragona

Castile and León

Province of Avila

Province of Burgos

Province of León

Province of Palencia

Province of Salamanca

Province of Segovia

Province of Soria

Province of Zamora

Galicia

Province of A Coruña

Province of Lugo

Province of Ourense

Madrid

Navarra

Norway

Sweden

Lund Cathedral
Vä Church, Sweden
Galata Tower, Galata, Istanbul

Switzerland

Turkey

Ukraine

United Kingdom

England

In England, Romanesque architecture is often termed 'Norman architecture'. Castles, cathedrals and churches of the Norman period have frequently been extended during later periods. It is normal to find Norman in combination with Gothic architecture.

Scotland

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