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Monastery of Santa María de Monfero

Monfero, Eume, A Coruña

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Monastery of Santa María de Monfero

Monument · Monfero, Eume, A Coruña

The monastery of Santa María de Monfero stands in a small valley where the Lambruxo river rises, within the Fragas do Eume natural park, some 21 kilometres from Pontedeume. Founded by the nobles Alfonso Bermúdez and his nephew Pedro Osorio, it was first entrusted to the Benedictines until it passed to the Cistercian Order in 1147; a Cistercian monastery ever since, it was rebuilt in 1135 under Alfonso VII on an earlier settlement. It reached its height in the 16th and 17th centuries, when its rooms were renovated and its church moved from Renaissance to Baroque style. Its façade, completed around 1645 and overseen from 1620 by Simón de Monasterio, alternates granite and slate ashlar in a checkerboard pattern.

Photo: Miguel Branco (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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