The Monastery of Santa María la Real de las Huelgas (Burgos) was promoted by Alfonso VIII and Leonor de Plantagenet with the aim of turning it into a royal pantheon and a place where the women of royalty and high nobility could retire. The monastery was founded in 1187 and, just a few years later, in 1199, they joined the Cistercian Order.
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It hosted this work in the past [XIIIth c. - Mid XIXc.]