Monastery · Ferrol

Monasterio de Monfero

Today: Monasterio de Santa María de Monfero, Monfero

Place: Ferrol
Kind: Monastery
Built: c. 1574 to 1716
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The Cistercian monastery founded in 1134, which was rebuilt almost entirely from the 16th century on: in 1668 fray Bernardo de Armuño wrote that all its buildings had been made new within the last eighty years. Juan de Herrera began the Hospedería cloister in 1574, the Baroque church has a granite façade with a chequered pattern of slate, and the Chirola was finished in 1716. The church is well preserved, and part of the monastic buildings is in ruins.

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