25Monastery of Santo Estevo de Ribas de Sil

Nogueira de Ramuín · Galicia

Perched above the Sil canyon, one of the most monumental monasteries of the Ribeira Sacra, a pantheon of nine bishops according to tradition. Its three cloisters from different periods command a landscape of vertigo and seclusion.

Chronology and style

12th–18th c. · Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance · Benedictine monastery