page_title: Nuestra Señora de la Soterraña
section_title: Monastery
hierarchical_section_title: Nuestra Señora de la Soterraña / Monastery
caption_attribution_description: English: Southern corner in the cloister of the church of Santa María la Real de Nieva, Segovia province, Spain. Español: Esquina sur del claustro de la iglesia de Santa María la Real de Nieva, provincia de Segovia, España.
context_page_description: Nuestra Señora de la Soterraña is a Gothic church and monastery located at Santa María la Real de Nieva, Province of Segovia, Spain. It was built between late 14th and early 15th centuries.
  In 1920, two of its elements, the facade and the cloister, were designated as national monuments. Its present designation is Bien de Interés Cultural.
context_section_description: All the monastery rooms are placed around its cloister and open to it. In the eastern wing there are a chapter house, currently used as an exhibition room and the Queen's dormitory on the second floor, that is a library at present. In the southern wing there is the Court Hall, where King Henry IV called a meeting of the Courts of Castile in 1473, next to the refectory. Under the refectory, there is a subterranean warehouse.
  There was a fire in the southern wing of old monastery on December 6, 1899, that destroyed some of the old rooms – another smaller cloister, the library, stables and barns, that were not reconstructed, and later that piece of land was sold.
caption: Arches of the cloister southern corner.
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