Collegiate church of Santillana of the sea

Cantabria Collegiate church of Santillana of the sea

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Collegiate church of Santillana of the sea

The collegiate church of Julian female saint of Santillana of the sea, autonomous community of Cantabria (Spain), to the one that must your name this Cantabrian location ( Sant Iuliana-Santillana ), it are one of the Romanesque more representative monuments of the region. It was deposed national monument in 1889.Pretendedly the Julian youth was martyred in Asia Minor ( today Turkey ) during the persecutions begun for the Diocletian swordfish to ends of the III century, and your worn out remains in the IX century to this place for some traveling monks. Already in that moment ( the documents put it in 870 ) built a hermitage below the name given to a church of the where female saint guard and venerate your relics, and later a monastery it prospered below the protection of the local nobility. It went the Ferdinand I king of wool coating, in 1045, who gave the definitive impulse for granting of important privileges, one of the who consisted in putting below sovereignty of your abad the villa and your possessions. The primitive temple was substituted in Romanesque time for which, with diverse additions and reform, has kept until today, that date of the XII century. In your |orígenes| it constituted a Benedictine monastery, but in the XI century it acquired the rank of governed collegiate church for a community of canons of saint Augustin.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colegiata_de_Santillana_del_Mar

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