Monastery of Fitero

Daughter monasteries

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The Monastery of Santa Maria la Real is a former Cistercian abbey in the town of Fitero in Navarra in Spain. It is located in what is now the center of Fitero, in the countryside Ribera in the extreme south of Navarre, about 21 km west of the city of Tudela and south of the River Ebro, near the border with La Rioja and Aragon.

History

The monastery Fitero was probably the first Cistercian monastery in Spain today ( the founding of the monastery Moreruela already in 1131 is disputed ), founded in 1140 in Niencebas first daughter monastery monastery of L' Escaladieu from the filiation of primary Abbey Mori Moon. The move to Fitero took place no later than 1152. The construction of the church in Fitero was started in 1175 with the building of another 1,185. Fitero The Abbot of San Raimundo Serrat founded in 1158 the Order of Calatrava. Belonging (Castile or Navarre ) was controversial in the Middle Ages, to an apostolic legate in 1373, the monastery Navarre zusprach. In the 18th century the monastery joined with the other religious houses in Navarra of the Congregation of Aragón. The monastery was dissolved on 21 December 1835, the government Mendizábal.

Buildings and plant

Get the large, 86.5 m long and the nave 27.5 m wide nave and two aisles monastery church are in the form of a Latin cross with ambulatory with five chapels and transept with originally two chapels in the east and six longhouse Jochen, the south (right) of the Church, Renaissance cloister with the chapter house from the year 1247 to the east and further outbuildings. 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.