Veruela Abbey

Daughter monasteries

Monastery Herrera (1171 - 1835) Monastery Saya (1174 - 1791)

The monastery Veruela (Real Monasterio de Santa María de Veruela; Verola ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the town of Vera de Moncayo in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon in Spain. It lies in a valley on the eastern edge of the Sierra de Moncayo, about 15 km southeast of the city of Tarazona, near the source of Huecha.

History

Veruela Monastery was founded by a land donation by Pedro de Atares in 1146 as a daughter house of the monastery L' Escaladieu from the filiation of primary Abbey Mori Moon. It based itself daughters Herrera monastery and convent Saya. In the monastery cancellation ( disentailment ) under the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal the monastery was dissolved in 1835. In the following years the brothers Gustavo Adolfo Becquer and Valeriano Dominguez Becquer made ​​among other services to the maintenance of the plant. From 1877 to 1975, the monastery was used by the Jesuits. In 1976, the rights of use to the Provincial of Zaragoza.

Buildings and plant

The monastery complex with a large, 86.5 m long and the nave 27.5 m wide three-nave church in the form of a Latin cross with ambulatory with five chapels and transept with originally two chapels in the east and six kreuzgratgewölbten nave Jochen, the south (right) location of the church Renaissance cloister with the chapter house from the year 1247 in the east and other outbuildings are obtained. The baroque sacristy was built from 1725 to 1730. The guest house is now used as the town hall, the refectory as a cultural center.