Monasterio de San Juan

Today: Monasterio de San Juan de Poyo, Poyo

Place: Pontevedra
Kind: Monastery
Built: 1581 to 1749
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

A Benedictine monastery of medieval origin, with documents from 942, whose present church and processional cloister were begun in 1581. The church was contracted in 1691 to Pedro de Monteagudo on a plan by Fray Gabriel de Casas and was still under construction in the 18th century, and the porter's cloister was built between 1747 and 1749. The Mercedarians have occupied it since 1890 and the cloister buildings, the kitchen, the refectory and the chapter house hold a museum.

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