Historical landmark
The Ancient Spanish Monastery
16711 W Dixie Hwy, North Miami Beach, FL 33160, USA
Twelfth-century Spanish cloister, dismantled stone by stone and shipped to Florida by a newspaper tycoon.
This guide to the Ancient Spanish Monastery in Miami follows a twelfth-century Cistercian cloister that newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst bought stone by stone in Segovia in 1925 and shipped to New York in eleven thousand numbered crates. Each block was marked so it could be rebuilt exactly as it stood, a cloister raised in Sacramenia back in 1133, home to monks for roughly seven hundred years. The stones later sat forgotten in a Brooklyn warehouse through the Depression.
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