Rioseco Abbey
Rioseco Abbey ( es, Monasterio cisterciense de Santa María de Rioseco) is a former Cistercian abbey situated in Rioseco (Burgos), Rioseco in the Valle de Manzanedo, in the present province of Burgos, near the River Ebro. History Origins In 1148 the Cistercian Valbuena Abbey, of the filiation of Morimond Abbey, Morimond, founded a daughter house in a small former hermitage in Quintanajuar, in the Páramo de Masa. In 1171 this new community received as a gift from the heirs of the nobleman Martino Martini de Uizozes the ancient monastery of Rioseco, the previous history of which is unrecorded. After a temporary relocation in the late 12th century to San Cipriano de Montes de Oca (La Rioja (Spain), La Rioja), the Cistercians moved to the Valle de Manzanedo at the beginning of the 13th century, and probably in 1204, to occupy the old monastery of Rioseco. The site of the old monastery can still be seen by the ruins of the old conventual church. It seems that after a serious flood ...
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