History

The monastery of Our Lady of Huerta is located in the fertile valley of the River Jalon, south of Soria, bordering the old kingdoms of Castilla and Aragón. The monastery, whose lineage is Morimond’s, arose when monks from the French monastery of Berdous settled in 1150 at the village of Cántavos, now Fuentelmonge, about 15 km of Huerta. Here the monks had a farm. They later decided to finally settle at Huerta in 1162, given the better conditions of life there. Over the years the monastery was built, extended, being continually occupied until the expulsion of the monks and confiscation of the monastery in 1835 by Mendizábal. In 1930 monks returned to Huerta, this time from the Cantabrian monastery of Viaceli.