Vileña Cistercian Convent

The Cistercian convent Vileña was 1222-2008 a monastery of Cistercian nuns first in Vileña , 1970 in Villarcayo de Merindad de Castilla la Vieja , province of Burgos in Spain .

history

The Cistercian monastery of Santa María la Real de Vileña was founded in 1222 by Urraca López de Haro, the widow of King Ferdinand II of León , in Vileña (10 kilometers north of Briviesca ) and subordinated to the Las Huelgas monastery. In 1970 the monastery burned down. In 1974 the convent changed to Villarcayo (near Medina de Pomar ) while retaining the monastery name . There it was dissolved in 2008 due to a lack of appeals. The last remaining nuns went to the Calatravas monastery in Burgos . Vileña Monastery was part of the Cistercian Congregation of San Bernardo (CCSB) . In the street Calle del Convento in Vileña only the foundation walls with a few arches are left ( location coordinates: 42 ° 37 ′ 16.3 ″  N , 3 ° 19 ′ 18.7 ″  W ). The former monastery building still stands in Villarcayo ( Carretera de Medina ).

literature

• Inocencio Cadiñanos Bardeci: El Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Vileña, see Museo y Cartulario . Caja de Ahorros Municipal de Burgos, Burgos 1990.
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 816–817.

Web links

• Monastery site, Spanish, richly illustrated
• Blog about the monastery, Spanish, richly illustrated
• Blog about the monastery, with historical photos
• Archive page about the monastery
• Newspaper article on the dissolution of the monastery, Spanish