Ancient Spanish Monastery
Monastery · North Miami Beach, Florida
A Cistercian monastery built in Segovia in the 1140s, bought by William Randolph Hearst in 1925, dismantled stone by stone into eleven thousand crates and shipped to New York — where US customs quarantined it over foot-and-mouth disease, opened the crates and repacked the stones in the wrong boxes. It sat in a Brooklyn warehouse for twenty-six years before being reassembled here in the 1950s, as a jigsaw with no picture.
16711 West Dixie Highway, North Miami Beach, Florida, 33160, United States
Open most days for visitors, with a modest admission. CLOSES FREQUENTLY FOR WEDDINGS AND SERVICES — ring before travelling.
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