Nuestra Señora de las Fuentes

The Cartuja de las Fuentes or Cartuja de Monegros is a former Carthusian monastery in the municipality Sariñena far from the border to the municipality in the comarca of Lanaja Monegros in the Spanish province of Huesca in Aragon.

The Charterhouse was founded in 1507 by the Counts of Sástago at the site of an ancient hermitage, but moved in 1563 to the Charterhouse Aula Dei in Zaragoza. The Carthusian populated but already in 1589 the branch again. Accompanied by difficulties and interruptions construction of the existing monastery began in 1717 Its buildings are built in the Baroque style.; The church was 1770-1780 painted rich with 250 frescoes by Manuel Bayeu. The monastery was abandoned in the liberal period 1820-1823 and lifted in the disentailment in Spain in 1836 and then passed into private hands.

During the Civil War served a part of the system as a troop accommodation. In the immediate vicinity there was then a airfield. This was created for the air forces of the Spanish Republic, and continued to be used after the conquest of the area in the spring of 1938 by Franco's troops from the National Spaniards. The two Bf 109 squadrons of the hunt group 88 of the Legion Condor (1st and 2./JG88 ) were stationed here in March / April 1938 a few weeks. The crash landing of a German aircraft in the tower of the church was damaged.

In 2002, the former monastery was provided as Conjunto monumental ( Bien de Interès Cultural ) under protection.