the oldest building in the entire western hemisphere 🌿⛪️😮
📍 The Ancient Spanish Monastery
🎟️ $10/person for a self-guided walk through
🇪🇸 This was actually originally built in Segovia, Spain beginning in 1133 AD
⛵️ For those who don’t realize- that was almost 360 years BEFORE Columbus left Spain for America
📰 William Randolph Hearst bought the cloisters, took them apart & shipped them to the U.S. in over 11,000 wooden crates
😬 Time Magazine called this the “biggest jigsaw puzzle in history” as it took years to put all the pieces of the deconstruction back to what it is today
🌿 You can now stroll through, read some of the wild history & relax in the beautiful gardens- I basically had this entire place to myself which is absolutely wild to me
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The Ancient Spanish Monastery
