Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sigena is a convent in Villanueva de Sigena, region of Aragon, Spain. Built between 1183 and 1208, the Romanesque church was founded by Queen Sancha of Castile, wife
The Romanesque Monastery of Santa María de Sigena
One of the sepulchres returned to the Monastery of Sigena from Lleida Museum.
Paintings from the chapter house of the Monastery of Sigena at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona.
The chapter house and its frescos, before 1914
Sancha of Castile was the only surviving child of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile by his second wife, Richeza of Poland. Alfonso VII had also given the same name, Sancha, to his daughter by his f
Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sigena
…María de Sigena) is a convent in Villanueva de Sigena, region of Aragon, Spain. Built between 1183 and 1208, the Romanesque church was founded by Queen Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon. The convent church is based on the shape of the Latin cross. It has a single nave, a wide transept and three apse chapels…
Sancha of Castile and her husband Alfonso II of Aragon in the 12th-century manuscript Liber Feudorum Maior
Doña Sancha of Castile, Founder of the Monastery of Sigena. (Painting of Sancha of Castile by Valentín Carderera)
The Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sigena.