Capilla de San Nicolas (Chapel of St. Nicholas), Girona

Capilla de San Nicolas (Chapel of Saint Nicholas) is a Romanesque chapel in the city of Girona that dates from the twelfth century. It was built in the Sant Pere cemetery in order to be able to provide certain parish services that were in charge of the monastery. It is a work declared a cultural asset of national interest.

Small church, model of a funerary chapel, located in the grounds of the old cemetery of the monastery of Sant Pere de Galligants. It is a building with a nave, barrel-vaulted roof, and trilobed apse. The nave arose as an extension of a fourth apse, given that the chapel was originally circular in plan. In the cross, an octagonal cupola is erected, on trumpets, with an upper lantern. Outside, the main facade disappeared when the clergy hospital was built. In 1763 a door was opened on the south facade. The vault presents decoration based on blind arches, as in the case of the apse, typical of the twelfth century . The work is made with small and regular equipment, which gives it a certain archaic air.

There are early Christian remains from the 4th century . It is assumed that they had been part of a funerary construction. Several tombs of different construction types are preserved that use stone slabs or opus spicatum pebbles. According to Lamperez, the church of Sant Nicolau remembers the cells or memoria martyrum erected by the early Christians in their cemeteries.

The current construction dates from the twelfth century (it is documented since 1135), although it has been assumed that its origins are more remote. In reality, the chapel served as the parish of the Raval de Sant Pere, since the church of the monastery attended to the needs of the monks and was reserved only for the baptismal functions of the faithful.

With the confiscation of 1835 , the chapel passed into private hands. Converted into a leather merchant's warehouse and, subsequently, a sawmill, in 1936 it was acquired by the city council. It was restored in 1942 and again in 1977, in an intervention of a very historicist nature.

The chapel is used as a cultural space for exhibitions and art shows. It is also decorated, every year, during Girona, Temps de Flors.