Monday 2nd June 2014
Santillana del Mar was probably just a little village until the 9th century AD when the remains of the young Juliana of Nicomedia who was executed by the Emperor Diocletian in Asia Minor ( present day Turkey) in the 3rd century was brought here by some monks to this place in the Kingdom of Asturias. A chapel was built here and under the protectionand promotion of the nobilities this flourished into a monastery.
The Romanesque features of this building has been preserved until today. It was originally a Benedictine monastery but in the 11th century was elevated into a Collegiate under the care of a community of canons of St Augustine.
Not knowing that I could have toured the inside of the Collegiate - I had just viewed the building from outside.
the Collegiate sits at the end of the main avenue of the town
horses and cows grazing in the hills behind the Collegiate
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