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Pyrenees of Huesca, Spain
the cloister of San Juan de la Peña II
San Juan de la Peña (Pyrenees of Huesca, Spain) is an area with a landscape of notable beauty that proudly proclaims the most profound historical roots of the ancient Kingdom of Aragon. San Juan de la Peña Monastery was built between the final years of the ninth century and the beginning of the tenth century, and It was pantheon of the Monarchs of Aragon. The romanesque cloister of San Juan de la Peña built in the 12th century, this is the most important part of the monastery and It´s sheltered under the rock of the mountain, which functions as a natural vault and turns this into the only cloister in the world with such a shelter. It is worth remarking on its romanesque capitals dating back to the 12th and 13th century. 2003-04-24.