Habsburg and Bourbon Spain

Santa María de Huerta

Today: Spain

Years: 1492–1833
Role: Village of the Cistercian monastery of Huerta

A village on the old frontier between Castile and Aragon, around the Cistercian monastery of Santa María la Real de Huerta, which in the 16th century obtained help from Charles I and Philip II and enlarged its complex. After the Mendizábal confiscations the monks were expelled and only the church remained, as a parish. In the middle of the 19th century the village had 29 houses and 146 inhabitants.

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Monasterio de Santa María de Huerta (Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Huerta): Monastery, 1533 to 1600

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