San Juan de Duero Monastery

This complex was founded by the Knights Templar in 1134. Two centuries later, the Knights Hospitaller ordered to build the cloister of San Juan de Duero.

one of the most attractive tourist elements in the town of Soria, and a construction that is unique in the European Romanesque: Round arches, horseshoe arches and ogive ends that are supported by pillars decorated with sculpted capitals. It shows a mixture of influences: Romanesque, Mudéjar and the Arab from Amalfi (Italy).

The church has a single nave, chancel and a semicircular apse. We should highlight the two small temples that are attached to the walls in the base of the nave. One of them is crowned by a semi- spherical vault and the other one is crowned by a conical vault. The interior of the cathedral (where there are gravestones, mosaics, etc…) offers side altars that are covered each by ciboria (baldachin that crowns an altar or tabernacle in the primitive Christian temples) and Romanesque capitals.

The temple of the monastery has become the headquarters of the medieval section of the Museum of Numancia.