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Founding of the Cistercian monastery of Oia

Oia, Baixo Miño, Pontevedra

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Founding of the Cistercian monastery of Oia

Historical milestone · Oia, Baixo Miño, Pontevedra

Image of Oia, not of the place itself.

Alfonso VII endowed, around the mid-12th century, a monastic community on the coast of Oia that joined the Cistercian Order in 1185; the monastery came to control much of the coastline and to defend it with cannons against corsairs.

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Photo: Contando Estrelas from Vigo, España / Spain (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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