Monastery · Orense

Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Osera

Today: Mosteiro de Santa María de Oseira, San Cristóbal de Cea

Place: Orense
Kind: Monastery
Built: c. 1552 to 1800
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The Cistercian monastery, known for its size as the Escorial of Galicia, documented from 1137. A fire in August 1552 destroyed every building except the church, and it was rebuilt between the 16th and 17th centuries; the regular cloister, or cloister of the medallions, was rebuilt in the 18th. It is now a Trappist house, and the lapidary can be visited in the old refectory.

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