Cathedrals, monasteries and/or churches generally follow the Latin Cross plan. A  vaulted monumental portico (porch) precedes the facades. The doors included archivolts. Under the archivolts we find an important element of the Romanesque façades: the tympanum, it  usually depicts scenes of Ancien and New Testament.

In the Romanesque, vaults were used to cover the main aisles, with reinforced archest, although this was the form most used during the Romanesque period, other forms were used.   Small churches were built around the high altar, and semicircular aisle so people could  go through them. The construction of twin bell towers was frequent in the façade. It was also typical a bell tower (vertical wall).  When the doors are very wide they placed as reinforcement a central column that included ornamental elements. The columns are the essential elements, they receive the weight of the arches and vaults. The column is composed of base, shaft and capital. The capital includes ornamental elements usually of vegetal type. Sometimes we find several columns in groups of two or three.