24Monastery of Oseira

San Cristovo de Cea · Galicia

Known as ‘the Galician Escorial’, it is the great Cistercian monastery of Galicia, once again inhabited by its community today. Its Romanesque church, its chapter house of twisting ‘palm-tree’ columns and its cloister embody the Cistercian ideal of silence.

Chronology and style

Founded in 1137 · Cistercian · Transitional Romanesque and Baroque

Ways and routes

VÍA DE LA PLATA (SOUTHEAST)