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Monastery of Santa María de la Armedilla

Cogeces del Monte, Campo de Peñafiel, Valladolid

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Monastery of Santa María de la Armedilla

Monument · Cogeces del Monte, Campo de Peñafiel, Valladolid

The monastery of Santa María de la Armedilla, now in ruins, stands about 3.8 kilometres from Cogeces del Monte. Its origin lies in the chance discovery, by some shepherds, of an image of the Virgin in a cave hollowed out of the rock; a Romanesque carving of the Virgin, from the late 12th century, is preserved in the parish church of Cogeces. In the early 15th century, Prince Fernando de Antequera proposed donating it to the monks of la Mejorada de Olmedo to found a Hieronymite monastery, whose main buildings — church, three-storey cloister and the palace of the Dukes of Alburquerque, patrons of the monastery — were erected in the 16th century. After the 19th-century confiscation it was left abandoned; today the walls of the church, remains of the cloister, cellars and cisterns survive. The ruins were declared Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 2007.

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