点评:Admission was free and just from the panorama inside the gates it looked awesome. Founded in the 13th century, this was a very wealthy Cistercian monastery and it lasted until the mid 19th century when laws were passed against monastic holdings and the monastery artworks were sold or plundered. The monastery then became a farm and the buildings declined until the Valencian government bought them in 2003 and began the process of restoration.
The first room as you enter has a display of the history of the monastery and the wider political story in the area but this was all in Spanish so we skimmed through it. The gardens were a mix of lavender hedges and orange groves and the main church building had the most incredible interior, polychrome ceiling and the remains of baroque wall paintings. These were quite fantastic to see and most have been mind blowing in their heyday a few hundred years ago. There were several areas we couldn't enter due to the ongoing restoration but the work being done was quite superb. The cloisters were beautiful, although still a work in progress and there was some vaulting from a ceiling (but no ceiling) that looked fantastic. We spent about 90 minutes at the monastery.
翻译:入场免费,仅从大门内的全景来看,它就令人叹为观止。这座修道院建于13世纪,曾是一座非常富有的西多会修道院,一直持续到19世纪中期,当时法律通过,禁止修道院财产,修道院的艺术品被出售或掠夺。后来,修道院变成了农场,建筑也逐渐衰败,直到2003年瓦伦西亚政府买下它们,开始修复。
进入后的第一个房间展示了修道院的历史以及该地区更广泛的政治事件,但都是西班牙语的,所以我们只是粗略地浏览了一下。花园里种植着薰衣草篱笆和橘子树,主教堂拥有令人难以置信的内部装饰、彩色天花板和巴洛克风格壁画的遗迹。这些壁画非常值得一看,其中大多数在几百年前的鼎盛时期都令人叹为观止。由于正在进行修复,有几个区域我们无法进入,但修复工作相当出色。回廊很漂亮,虽然仍在施工中,天花板上有一些拱顶(但没有天花板),看起来非常棒。我们在修道院待了大约90分钟。