Photo de stock - Sobrado is a municipality in the Spanish province of A Coruña and an area of 121 km² Sobrado is well known because of Sobrado Abbey, a Trappist monastery The town is known by the name Sobrado dos Monxes in Galician or Sobrado de los Monjes in Spanish but the official name is just Sobrado A monastery is believed to have been founded on the site in the 10th century by the Benedictines By the beginning of the 12th century it had been abandoned In 1142, it was re-founded as a Cistercian monastery from Clairvaux During the 12th and 13th centuries it flourished and was able to undertake the foundations of its own daughter house, Valdedios Abbey in Asturia Sobrado was also given the supervision of Monfero Abbey after it joined the Cistercian Order After a period of decline Sobrado was the first abbey in Galicia, in 1498, to join the Castilian Cistercian Congregation The monumental new Baroque abbey church was dedicated in 1708 Most of the conventual buildings were also rebuilt at this time The dissolution of the monasteries enforced by the government of Mendizábal in 1835 put an end to the abbey, and the abandoned buildings fell into decay In 1954 the Trappist monks of Viaceli Abbey in Cóbreces, west of Cantabria, began reconstruction, having already refounded and restored Huerta Abbey in 1929, and were able to resettle the monastery with a new Trappist community in 1966

Photo de stock: Sobrado is a municipality in the Spanish province of A Coruña  and an area of 121 km²  Sobrado is well known because of Sobrado Abbey.

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