Santo Domingo de Silos

Santo Domingo de Silos grew around a Benedictine monastery in a quiet valley south of Burgos. Its Romanesque cloister is celebrated for paired columns, carved capitals and great reliefs depicting scenes from the life of Christ. The community preserved books and manuscripts as well as its ancient monastic traditions. In the eighteenth century the medieval church was replaced by a new building designed by Ventura Rodríguez, while the sculpted cloister remained at the heart of the monastery.