Castañeda - Santa Cruz de Castañeda

Santa Cruz de Castañeda Santa Cruz de Castañeda was founded around the 10th century as a Cluniac Benedictine monastery. In the 12th century, it became a collegiate church run by canons of the Order of St Augustine. At that time, it was a royal domain, the dominion of which Alfonso XI ceded to his son Don Tello in the 14th century, who then passed it on to the Manrique family.

In 1420, the church appears as the property of Doña Aldonza Téllez de Castilla and her husband García Fernández Manrique, Count of Castañeda from 1430.

All that remains of the original monastery is the church, which was built in the 12th century in Romanesque style and whose appearance has been altered by additions and renovations. The church serves the parish since 1851


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