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Cloister of the eighty-seven capitals

Santa María la Real de Nieva, Comunidad de Ciudad y Tierra de Segovia, Segovia

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Cloister of the eighty-seven capitals

Monument · Santa María la Real de Nieva, Comunidad de Ciudad y Tierra de Segovia, Segovia

Image of Santa María la Real de Nieva, not of the place itself.

Although it was raised in the fifteenth century, the cloister repeats the scheme of a late Romanesque one, with paired columns and slightly pointed arches. Its 87 capitals and 40 corbels form a carved medieval calendar: sowing, harvest, grape picking and the pig slaughter.

Photo: JnCrlsMG (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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