The Roman Bunch of a Twelfth-century Monastery in Spain

The monastery in Villamayor de los Montes, Spain, was founded by García Fernández in 1223 for a community of Cistercian nuns. It was inaugurated in 1228. The monastery, now mostly in ruins, has survived for almost a millennium, but its cloister and parts of the church are largely intact. The cloister is rectangular in shape, 18 meters by 20 meters, with 18 by 20 arches. The columns have vegetable-style capitals, many of which retain their original design leaf motifs.

The south side of the cloister is missing two arches, while two on the north side were cut and joined, forming an arcosolio for a sepulcher. The cloister's paving, made in the 16th century, includes various geometric patterns and a scene of a hunt on the south side. Animals, a standard-bearer, and the monastery's emblem are also depicted on the paving. The church, similar in form to the Monastery of Las Huelgas, is essentially Gothic. It has a triple-ended choir with a cruciform vault, but the central apse is much larger than the lateral ones.

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