Did you know that the alleged oldest building in the Western Hemisphere dates from 1133 and is located in Miami? The Spanish Monastery Cloisters were first erected in Segovia, Spain. Centuries later, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst purchased and brought them to America in pieces. The carefully numbered stones were quarantined for years until they were finally reassembled on the...
The Monastery of St. Bernard de Clairvaux has traveled a long way through distance and time.:
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The monastery was completed in Sacramenia, in the Provice of Segovia, Spain, in 1141. Cistercian monks occupied the monastery for nearly 700 years. In 1925, media mogul...