Monastery of Santa María de Toloño

Ruins of the Monastery of Santa María de Toloño.

Chapel of the Monastery of Santa María de Toloño.

View of the Sierra de Toloño mountain range.

Santa María de Toloño, also known as Our Lady of los Ángeles, is a ruined Spanish monastery located in the Sierra de Toloño near Labastida, Álava. Constructed by the Hieronymites, the monastery was destroyed in the First Carlist War and only a few walls remain.

History[]

The sanctuary is located in a meadow at 1,201 metres (3,940 ft) above sea level. It was built by the Hieronymites between the 14th and 15th centuries, and abandoned in 1422 due to harsh weather. Later, it was affiliated with the Hermandad de la Divisa (Brotherhood of the Currency) until the end of 18th century. In 1835, during the First Carlist war, it suffered a fire that left only a part of the Baroque chapel standing.

Architecture and fittings[]

The building was well-constructed, with church, camarín and sacristía. Its retablo mayor were of white stone. There were 22 rooms, five kitchens, separate rooms for a chaplain, two hermits and a servant, as well as a meeting room for the Divisa.^[1]

References[]

Bibliography[]

• De Sigüenza, José (1544). CAPITVLO XXXII. Historia de la Orden de San Jerónimo. Pages 155–156. (in Spanish)
• Hergueta and Martin, Domingo (1906). Noticias históricas de la muy noble y muy leal ciudad de Haro (1979 edition). Logroño: Publications Service of the Provincial Council of Logroño. ISBN 84-735-9062-7. (in Spanish)
• Goicolea Julián, Francisco Javier (1999). Haro: una villa riojana del linaje Velasco a fines del Medievo (1999 edition). Logroño: Ediciones Instituto de Estudios Riojanos. Page 362, ISBN 84-89362-54-8. (in Spanish)

External links[]

• Media related to Monastery of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Toloño at Wikimedia Commons

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