The Way of Saint James from Madrid - Monasterio de La Santa Espina
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The Santa Espina district, which belongs to the municipality of Castromonte, is one of the 800 towns that appeared during the 1950s on the initiative of the National Colonisation Institute for the Agrarian Development of Spain. Nevertheless, the earliest settlement first sprang up around the monastery that once stood here.
The religious community would suffer the effects of the confiscation of church property and most of its works of art would be lost. However, it regained some of its former vitality following the creation of a farm run by La Sallian Brothers who, in the mid 20th century, would turn it into a School of Farming Studies.
What to see?
Monastery of Santa Maria de la EspinaMore informationThe monastery was built in the 12th century on the orders of Sancha of Castile, sister of Alphonse VII the Emperor. The French King Louis the Younger gave the Spanish princess a thorn from the crown of...
Farming Museum of La Santa EspinaMore informationThis ethnographic museum is in the privileged landscape and architectural setting surrounding the Cistercian monastery of Santa Espina.
