Alconada Monastery

The Alconada monastery (also: Arconada ) was a Trappist monastery from 1956 to 1978 and has been a Cistercian monastery since 1985 in Ampudia de Campos, Comarca Tierra de Campos , Palencia province in Spain.

history

By the 14th century at the latest, there was a pilgrimage site with a hermitage in Alconada near Ampudia (23 kilometers southwest of Palencia ), for which a church was built from 1729 to 1747. In 1956 the Trappist women of the Holy Spirit Monastery in Olmedo, Valladolid Province, moved their convent to Alconada, but in 1978 they moved to the Vico Monastery in Arnedo . In 1985 a small group of Cistercian women from the El Valle monastery in Aranda de Duero (Peugniez 816) came to a settlement that is still going on but is endangered.

literature

• Luis J. Peña Castrillo: Los ermitaños de Santa María de Alconada de Ampudia de Campos . Palencia 2004.
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 822.

Web links

• Monastery side of the Certosa of Florence, with location
• Parish side to the monastery, Spanish
• Newspaper article about the monastery, Spanish, 2007

Coordinates: 41 ° 55 ′ 18 "  N , 4 ° 44 ′ 48.5"  W.