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Monastery sacred sites in Spain
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Monastery of San Jerónimo, Granada
Granada, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Founded by the Catholic Monarchs immediately after the 1492 fall of Granada, the Monastery of San Jerónimo was built as the city's first Christian monastic house and as...
Monastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
Built by Philip II after his 1557 victory at Saint-Quentin, El Escorial fuses a working monastery, a royal mausoleum, and one of Catholic Christendom's largest relic...
Sant Pere de Rodes Monastery
El Port de la Selva, El Port de la Selva, Girona, Catalonia, Spain
High on the Serra de Rodes above Catalonia's Cap de Creus, Sant Pere de Rodes stands as a roofless Benedictine ruin over Mediterranean cliffs....
Poblet Monastery
Vimbodí i Poblet, Vimbodí i Poblet, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Poblet is one of the largest inhabited monasteries in Europe: a single walled complex fusing abbey, fortress, and royal residence, founded in 1151 as a Cistercian daughter...
Royal Monastery of Yuste
Cuacos de Yuste, Cuacos de Yuste, Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
The Royal Monastery of Yuste rises from the Sierra de Gredos foothills as a working Hieronymite foundation and, since the sixteenth century, as the place where Charles V —...
Monastery of Samos
Samos, Samos, Lugo, Galicia, Spain
Set in a river valley ringed by mountains in Lugo province, the Monastery of Samos has hosted Benedictine monastic life, with interruptions, since the 6th or 7th century....
Monastery of La Rábida
Palos de la Frontera, Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, Andalusia, Spain
A modest Gothic-Mudéjar friary on a solitary promontory above the Tinto and Odiel rivers, La Rábida has held a continuous Franciscan community since a 1412 papal charter....
Monastery of Piedra
Nuévalos, Nuévalos, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain
Founded in 1194 when Cistercian monks from Poblet settled a former Moorish castle in the Aragonese hills, the Monastery of Piedra functioned as an austere monastic house...
Monastery of Valvanera
Anguiano, Anguiano, La Rioja, Spain
Deep in the forested Sierra de la Demanda, Valvanera holds the image of Our Lady of Valvanera, Patroness of La Rioja since 1965....
Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos
Santo Domingo de Silos, Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos, Castile and León, Spain
A working Benedictine abbey in rural Castile, built around the tomb of an 11th-century reform abbot and a cloister ranked among the great works of Spanish Romanesque...
Vallbona de les Monges Monastery
Vallbona de les Monges, Vallbona de les Monges, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Of the three great Cistercian houses of medieval Catalonia — Poblet, Santes Creus, and Vallbona — only Vallbona has maintained an unbroken religious community since the...
Monastery of Leyre
Yesa, Yesa, Navarre, Spain
Beneath the Sierra de Leyre, a half-buried Romanesque crypt and a Benedictine church hold the remains of the kings who founded Navarre....
Monastery of San Juan de la Peña
Santa Cruz de la Serós, Santa Cruz de la Serós, Huesca, Aragón, Spain
The Royal Monastery of San Juan de la Peña is built directly beneath an overhanging Pyrenean cliff near Jaca, Aragón....
Monastery of Santa María la Real de Nájera
Nájera, Nájera, La Rioja, Spain
Beneath the church at Nájera, a rock-hewn cave is said to hold the spot where a king's falcon led him to a hidden image of the Virgin in 1044....
Sacromonte Abbey
Granada, Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Sacromonte Abbey sits above Granada on the hillside renamed 'Sacred Mountain' after 1595, when caves beneath it yielded human remains and inscribed lead plates devotional...
Santes Creus Monastery
Aiguamúrcia, Aiguamúrcia, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Founded in the mid-twelfth century as one of Catalonia's three great Cistercian houses, Santes Creus held the royal pantheon of the Crown of Aragon before its monks were...
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