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The Royal Monastery of Huelgas , in Burgos, of Cistercian nuns was founded in 1187 by Alfonso VIII and his wife Dona Leonor .
In the first building , built by Alfonso VIII between 1180 and 1190 , include the Romanesque cloister and the Chapel of the Assumption , purest work of Almohad art .
Well into the first half of the thirteenth century began the second construction , the great work of the present church , cloister and adjacent rooms - chapter house, refectory and cilla built during the reign of Ferdinand III .
The will of Alfonso VIII and Leonor , expressed explicitly in 1199 , was to make strikes the Royal Pantheon . In the temple buildings occupied by the choir of nuns , are the royal tombs of the monarchs founders and their immediate successors . From the tombs of the Royal Pantheon exposed garments come now in the Museum of Medieval Fabric .
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The Royal Monastery of Huelgas , in Burgos, of Cistercian nuns was founded in 1187 by Alfonso VIII and his wife Dona Leonor .
In the first building , built by Alfonso VIII between 1180 and 1190 , include the Romanesque cloister and the Chapel of the Assumption , purest work of Almohad art .
Well into the first half of the thirteenth century began the second construction , the great work of the present church , cloister and adjacent rooms - chapter house, refectory and cilla built during the reign of Ferdinand III .
The will of Alfonso VIII and Leonor , expressed explicitly in 1199 , was to make strikes the Royal Pantheon . In the temple buildings occupied by the choir of nuns , are the royal tombs of the monarchs founders and their immediate successors . From the tombs of the Royal Pantheon exposed garments come now in the Museum of Medieval Fabric .
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