Monasterio de Santa MarÃa de Villanueva de Oscos
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The monastery of Villanueva de Oscos (Santa María de Villanueva ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the village of Villanueva de Oscos in the Comarca Eo- Navia in the Sierra de la Bobia in the far west of Asturias, in northern Spain region, near the border with Galicia.
History
The monastery was built in 1182 by Fray Martin de Vega for the Benedictine Order. The community joined in 1203 as a daughter house of the Cistercian order Carracedo Monastery and thus belonged to the filiation of the monastery of Citeaux. In the monastery cancellation ( disentailment ) under the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal the monastery was dissolved in 1835.
Buildings and plant
The monastery, which is classified as Monumento Nacional ( Bien de Interès Cultural ), was repeatedly rebuilt, the present structure is largely baroque. Of the original Romanesque structure, the eastern parts of the church with a semicircular main apse and the grave of Juan Alvarez Osorio are preserved on the north side of the church.