Carrión de los Condes

Carrión de los Condes stands on the pilgrimage road across the plains of Tierra de Campos. Its monastery of San Zoilo received the relics of the martyr from Córdoba in the eleventh century and became an important religious and political centre, welcoming pilgrims and royal visitors. After a long decline, the monastery joined the Benedictine congregation of Valladolid in the fifteenth century. Its old cloister was replaced by an elaborate new one, carved to celebrate the history and importance of the order.