The 11th-century Monasterio de la Oliva, 2km from Carcastillo, which is southeast of Olite, was founded by Cistercian monks and is still functioning as a monastic community. Its austere church gives onto a peaceful Gothic cloister.
Monasterio de la Oliva
Navarra
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