Monasterio de Santes Creus

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Monasterio de Santes Creus Description

From Valls a secondary road leads 18km/11mi north to the Cistercian monastery of Santes Creus, founded in 1157. The Romanesque church (1254) with its fortress like facade and octagonal tower over the crossing, contains the handsome tombs of a number of kings of Aragon, including Pedro III and Jaime II and his wife Blanche of Anjou.

Hobbies & Activities category: Architecture - Romanesque; Town walls, fortifications, gates; Christian sites; Architecture - Baroque or Rococo; Tombs, burial site

Monasterio de Santes Creus Highlights

Interior

The monastery has two cloisters - the Gothic New Cloister, with finely carved capitals and a simple fountain-house, and the Romanesque Old Cloister, entered from the northwest corner of the New

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Address

Monasterio de Santes Creus
Plaza Sant Bernat
Tarragona
Spain

Hours

March 16 to September 15

Open	10:30	10:30	10:30	10:30	10:30	10:30	10:30
Closed	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30
Open	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00
Closed	19:00	19:00	19:00	19:00	19:00	19:00	19:00

September 16 to January 15

Open	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00
Closed	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30
Open	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00
Closed	17:30	17:30	17:30	17:30	17:30	17:30	17:30

January 16 to March 15

Open	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00
Closed	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30	13:30
Open	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00	15:00
Closed	18:00	18:00	18:00	18:00	18:00	18:00	18:00

Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1) Christmas - Christian (December 25)