Monastery of Santa María Real de las Huelgas

The convent was founded by Alfonso VIII and his wife Leonor, as Royal Pantheon and spiritual retreat for ladies in high society and royalty.

Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Mave

Santa María la Real Monastery

According to legend, this beautiful monastery was founded in 1052 by king Don García Sánchez III, after he found a mysterious image of the Virgin Mary in a nearby cave.

Santa María Monastery in Ripoll

Santa María de San Salvador Monastery

Monastery of Santa María de Sandoval

Santa María Convent in Sobrado

Monastery of Santa María

The Cistercian monastery of Santa María de Valbuena is one of the finest examples of Cistercian architecture on the whole of the Iberian Peninsula.

Santa María de Valdediós Monastery

Santa María Convent in Vallbona de Les Monges

Santa María de Valvanera Monastery

The sanctuary was built after the discovery of a 9th-century, Byzantine style image of Santa María.

Monastery of Santa María de la Vid

The monastery of Santa María de la Vid is today conserved in a magnificent monastic architectural site, and has a library which serves as a museum containing numerous treasures of sacred art and numismatics.

Monastery of Santes Creus

It is located in the Alt Camp region, in a valley near Gaiá River.

Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos

The monastery of Silos dates from the 7th century, although its most important part was built in the 11th century.

Santo Toribio de Liébana Monastery

Suso Monastery in San Millán de la Cogolla

Suso Monastery was the setting for the first words of Castilian Spanish and also the first poems in the language. It received the World Heritage designation on 4 December 1997.

Tentudía Monastery

Declared of National Historic Interest.

Church of Santa María de Tina

Uclés Monastery

The monastery is located within the fortress of Uclés (12th century) which was built on a vast swathe of land: one square kilometre surrounded by walls, bastions, buttresses and crenellated towers.

Monastery of Viaceli

Yuso Monastery in San Millán de la Cogolla

The library at Yuso is one of the most important in Spain, not only on account of the number of documents it contains, but also for their age and value. Designated World Heritage on 4 December 1997.

Monastery of San Jerónimo in Yuste

It was founded in the 15th century, and was the place the emperor Charles V spent his final months. It has two cloisters –one Gothic and the other Renaissance.

Arabí Mountain

Monument to Ataulfo Argenta