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Ancient Spanish Monastery

A 12th-century Segovia cloister Hearst bought, crated, and shipped to Florida.

North Miami Beach, FL 33160
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Community memory · 1133–today · Aug 7, 2026
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The cloisters of the Monastery of San Bernardo de Claraval were built in Sacramenia, Spain, beginning in 1133. William Randolph Hearst bought them in 1925, had the buildings dismantled stone by stone and packed in about 11,000 numbered crates. US customs quarantined the shipment because the packing hay came from a hoof-and-mouth region; the hay was burned and the stones were repacked into the wrong boxes. Hearst's fortune collapsed and the crates sat in a Brooklyn warehouse for 26 years. Two buyers reassembled them here — a nineteen-month jigsaw puzzle — and it is now an Episcopal church.

Source: Ancient Spanish Monastery, official institutional history; Ancient Spanish Monastery / Church of St. Bernard de Clairvaux, official church and visitor information

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