Monasterio de Santa MarÃa de Valdediós
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The monastery Valdediós ( Vallis Dei ) is a medieval re- occupied Cistercian abbey in the Vale of boides in the municipality of Villaviciosa in Asturias, Spain.
History
The monastery was founded in 1200 by Alfonso IX. León, next to the pre-Romanesque church of San Salvador de Valdediós, a highlight of the Asturian architecture, built by King Alfonso III. had built of Asturias in the year 893 as his retirement home. The monastery suffered a flowering period and the decline in the time of Upcoming in 1515 in the Castilian Cistercian Congregation. In the War of Independence, the monastery from 1808 to 1812 had to be abandoned. Under the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal the monastery was dissolved in 1835, but remained some monks, the last of whom died in 1862, in the monastery. From 1862 to 1951, the monastery of the diocese of Oviedo served as a seminary and college. From 1986 it was restored. In 1992 it was again obtained from a Cistercian convent, but left it again in 2008 and was replaced by members of the controversial within the church community of St John.
Buildings and plant
Begun in 1218 cross-shaped rib-vaulted church with a vestibule, semicircular apses, a nave and two aisles was built in the 13th century. The equipment comes in part the 18th century, including the Baroque organ. The sacristy with a net vault was built in the 16th century. The medieval cloister was replaced after a flood in the 16th century by a two-story Renaissance cloister, which was a third of levels in the 18th century.