Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Huerta

Today: Monasterio de Santa María de Huerta, Santa María de Huerta

Place: Santa María de Huerta
Kind: Monastery
Built: 1533 to 1600
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

The Cistercian monastery whose church was begun on 20 March 1179 and whose refectory, of 1215, is its masterpiece, but to which the 16th century gave its cloisters: the upper one, Renaissance, from 1533 to 1547, and the Hospedería cloister, Herrerian, around 1582; the grand staircase dates from 1600. Since 1930 a community of Trappist monks has lived in it.

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