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1. THE
MONASTERIES
By:Laura 2ºA

2. INDEX
• What is it?
• Types
• Parts
• Last monasteries built in Spain

3. WHAT IS IT?
• A monastery is a building where one or more monks in closing. The Christian monasteries are
also called abbeys. The word "monastery" is also used to refer to this type of communities of
other religions. The word "monastery" comes from the Greek monasterion , of the mono root
("one only"), since originally all Christian monks were hermits and very lonely.
• In the Middle Ages, monasteries developed completing their surroundings with farms,
hospitals and other buildings. The rules were the written ordinances that the monks of the
different monacal orders were to follow.

4. WHAT IS IT?
• The monks gave the Church first-class missionaries for the conversion of Europe.
• They not only preached, they also founded schools, experimented with new agricultural
techniques...
• The life of a monk in the Middle Ages focused primarily on prayer and religious observance
(la práctica de la religión).
• Originally a monastery was the cell (celda) of a hermit (ermitaño) or an anchorite (anacoreta).

5. TYPES OF MONASTERIES
• Hispanio Monastery (monastery of Santa María de El Paular,Madrid), existed in the
peninsular Hispania since the beginning of Christianity. Both(tanto) the buildings and the way of life of
the monks and their rules were replaced by the liturgy.
• Eastern monasteries: they have their origin in Egypt.
• Slavic village monasteries: (Rila monastery in Bulgaria) before the fourteenth century contains a
good number of believers. The monks spread (extendieron) the reign.

6. PARTS

7. LAST MONASTERIES BUILT
IN SPAIN
I. Monastery of Santa María de Viaceli (Cóbreces, Cantabria),
promoted(promocionado) and sponsored(financiado) by the brothers Manuel and
Antonio Bernaldo de Quirós and Pomar as a Cistercian (monjes cisterciense)
foundation in 1909.
II. San Lorenzo female monastery in Oñate, Guipúzcoa, in 1928.
III. Monastery of the Valley of the Fallen (Abbey of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the
Fallen), 1940-1958, under the project of Pedro Muguruza and Diego Méndez.
IV. House of Spirituality of the Dominican Fathers (Caleruega, Burgos), 1952.
V. Monasterio del Rollo (or monastery of the Purísima Concepción), in Salamanca
1961, whose author was the architect Antonio Fernández Alba.
VI. Monastery of Santa María de las Escalonias (Hornachuelos, Córdoba), 1986.

8. LAST MONASTERIES
BUILT IN SPAIN
Santa María(Cantabria) Rollo(Salamanca) Santa María(Córdoba)

9. THE END