The remarkable cloisters have been described as "unrivalled for beauty both of detail and design, and perhaps unsurpassed by anything in its age and style in any part of Europe" (1911 Encyclopædia Britannica).
=== Monasterio de las Huelgas ===Monasterio de las Huelgas Reales (Opatija "Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas") na obrobju mesta, je bila ustanovljena leta 1180, po nalogu kralja Alfonza VIII.