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Monastery of Santa María de Loio

Paradela, Sarria, Lugo

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Monastery of Santa María de Loio

Monument · Paradela, Sarria, Lugo

Image of Paradela, not of the place itself.

In this house in the Loio valley the twelve knights who gave rise to the Order of Santiago came together in 1170, under Fernando II; the bull of Alexander III of 1175 that approved the order names the monastery expressly.

Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez (CC BY 2.0)

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