Santa María de Óvila
Santa María de Óvila is a former Cistercian monastery built in 1181 on the Tagus River near Trillo, Guadalajara, about 90 miles northeast of Madrid. American publisher William Randolph Hearst bought parts of the monastery in 1931 with the intention of using its stones in the construction of a grand and fanciful castle at Wyntoon, California. After some 10,000 stones...
