Monastery of San Miguel de Escalada. Portico. Mozarabic style, built on a Visigoth church. It was founded in the late 9th century, under the rule of Alfonso III, by a group of Christian monks from Cordoba led by Abbot Alfonso. Way of St. James. Province of Leon, Castile and Leon, Spain.

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