Monasterio de Santa María y San Vicente el Real

Monasterio de Santa María y San Vicente el Real - The Monastery of Santa María and San Vicente el Real is a cloistered monastery of the nuns of the Cistercian Order that is located outside the city walls of Segovia, in the autonomous community of Castilla y León, in Spain, on the banks of the River Eresma , in a landscape of great beauty, in steep slope which conditions a marked difference of levels between the different monastic dependencies.

Of uncertain origins immersed in the legend, its affiliation to the Cistercian Order in the year 1156 has no other support than the inscription that runs through the temple as a frieze, under the lines of the windows and that, renewed in 1676, no doubt it reproduces another previous one, probably of the last decades of the XV century.

The monastic set is today the result of at least three constructive stages:

- Of the first late-Romanesque factory only the apse of the primitive church and part of the nave is conserved.

- The second construction stage takes place in the late Middle Ages, extending until the sixteenth century. It is the fifteenth century the most important period of renewal of the monastic group, which affected at least the church, the cloister and convent buildings.

- The third stage corresponds to the reconstruction that begins after the fires of the second decade of the 17th century, in which the intervention of Pedro de Brizuela is fundamental.

From the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the performances in the monastery have not stopped, until reaching the current image of the whole, the result of the superposition of different factories throughout the life of the monastery.

At present the monastery is inhabited by Cistercian cloistered nuns who live from their garden and from the sale of flowers.

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Una joya del pasado. Una pena que las hermanas de la orden Cisterciense son muy mayores y pocas. Esperemos que no se cierre y se puedan hacer acontecimientos para que todo el mundo pueda verlo. Tiene una vista excepcional de Segovia.

Una pena porque va a ser cerrado al irse las monjas de la orden del cister, son muy mayores y no hay nuevas vocaciones. Una auténtica joya que va a ser abandonada.

¡Precioso lugar! Ubicado en un lugar perfecto de desconexión, en plena naturaleza y con unas vistas de ensueño.
No se puede visitar por que aún viven unas monjitas, pero dentro de poco se cerrará y esa magia volará. Es una pena😭

Toda una joya de segovia para visitar y disfrutar de las vistas. Lo recomiendo

El más antiguo de los monasterios segovianos. El Cister femenino sigue dando testimonio de fe entre estos antiquísimos muros. Preciosas vistas.

Lugar espectacular

Me gusta mucho el monasterio de san vicente de Segovia

Precioso!