What to see in Kingdom Spain

The Monastery of Guadalupe is situated in quite a remote location in the beautiful Sierra de Guadalupe mountains. It is lesser wide known attraction in Extremadura, but it is weel known among the pilgrims after an image of the Virgin was seen by a shepherd. It was the most important monastery in the...

These are twin monasteries named  Yuso and Suso are located in San Millán de la Cogolla. They were declared a World Heritage Site in 1997. Suso is the older of the two monasteries, and one of its claims to fame is as the site where phrases in the Spanish and Basque languages were written for the f...

The monastery of Santa Maria la Real in Najera was originally a royal foundation. Alfonso VI ceded the monastery to the Cluniac order. It was an important pilgrimage stop on the Camino de Santiago. It is particularly well-known for the spectacular woodwork in the choir of the church....

De la Rabida is a Franciscan monastery situated in municipality Palos de la Frontera (Huelva province). In this monastery 15th Century the great discoverer Christopher Columbus was stayed before obtaining approval from the Catholic Monarchs for his expedition to the New World. Some of buildings as c...

The former Augustinian monastery of Canonica de Santa Maria Vilabertran is located in village of Vilabertran, near Figueres. Here is a beautiful Romanesque church with a magnificent tower and three aisles....

Monastery Santo Toribio de Liébana is situated in Cantabrian mountains, near Potes. It is a Franciscan monastery founded prior to the 6th century. The monastery stands alongside Jerusalem, Rome, Santiago de Compostela and Caravaca de la Cruz as one of only five places with the privilege to ...

The monastery and the church of Santiago are situated at either side of the river that splits town of Padron. Both are place of interest among the visitors of the town. The church has an old stone known as the Pedron beneath its altar and may be this is the word from which Padron town gets its name....

The Royal Carthusian Monastery of Valldemossa was founded as a royal residence and later converted into a monastery of the Carthusian order. The monastery existed from 1399 until its secularisation in 1835 under the Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizábal. Today it is a museum....

The monastery of San Estevo de Ribas do Sil is situated near municipality of Carballeda de Avia, province of Ourense, Galicia.The monastery dates, following print sources, from the X century, although it is thought that it was erected in the VI century over a pre-existing temple by Saint Martín ...

Monastery of Santo Domingo is located in the very centre of Betanzos, at square Praza Irmáns García Naveira. Its construction was begun in the middle of XVI century and continued during the XVII.The monastery was build on base of an ancient chapel and built in rubble work, except the Main Chapel w...