The kitchen and the lay brothers' hall Monument · Santa María de Huerta, Tierra de Medinaceli, Soria Image of Santa María de Huerta, not of the place itself. Beside the refectory are preserved the great monastic kitchen with its central hood and the hall of the lay brothers, quarters of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that show how the work of a Cistercian abbey was organised. Photo: Ángel M. Felicísimo from Mérida, España (CC BY 2.0) What to see and do in Santa María de Huerta