Monasteries in Spain

[Kiwi-family]

I just found this very useful website about monasteries that take guests - not just in Spain but here's the link for those in Spain.

Also, I have a friend currently doing a 30 day silent retreat at the Ignacian Monastery in Loyola. I have no more details, but this might be enough to spark some ideas for someone.

 

[bullingtonce]

I just found this very useful website about monasteries that take guests - not just in Spain but here's the link for those in Spain.

Also, I have a friend currently doing a 30 day silent retreat at the Ignacian Monastery in Loyola. I have no more details, but this might be enough to spark some ideas for someone.

Thank you for posting this, especially about the silent retreat

 

[ilbestro12]

I just found this very useful website about monasteries that take guests - not just in Spain but here's the link for those in Spain.

Also, I have a friend currently doing a 30 day silent retreat at the Ignacian Monastery in Loyola. I have no more details, but this might be enough to spark some ideas for someone.

Does the one in Samos no longer take guests

 

[walking sticKs]

Very nice, thank you. Monasterio de Armenteira is on the Portuguese variant.

 

[M2ME]

I just found this very useful website about monasteries that take guests - not just in Spain but here's the link for those in Spain.

Also, I have a friend currently doing a 30 day silent retreat at the Ignacian Monastery in Loyola. I have no more details, but this might be enough to spark some ideas for someone.

The monastery of Santa María de Oseira on the Camino Sanabrés has an albergue run by the Xunta. It’s relatively new having opened in April ‘22. Pilgrims can visit the monastery and attend vespers with the monks. Those that wish to do so can also attend morning mass and laudes. The monks ask that you let them know the evening before if you wish to do so. A beautiful monastery, the second largest in Spain after the Escorial, in a gorgeous setting.

 

[Rafael1214]

I just found this very useful website about monasteries that take guests - not just in Spain but here's the link for those in Spain.

Also, I have a friend currently doing a 30 day silent retreat at the Ignacian Monastery in Loyola. I have no more details, but this might be enough to spark some ideas for someone.

Thanks for sharing the link, Kiwi-family! It’ll be awesome to visit and stay in these monasteries. I’ve just added them in my bucket list.

 

[staucher]

Does the one in Samos no longer take guests

I stayed at Samos last year. Gronze doesn't indicate that it's closed at this time.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Does the one in Samos no longer take guests

They still take guests

Abadía de Samos · Monasterio de Samos · Abadía Benedictina de San Julián de Samos

Abadía de Samos · Monasterio de Samos · Abadía Benedictina de San Julián de Samos

www.abadiadesamos.com

 

[KiwiJohn]

A friend of mine Fth Phil Cody sent me a link from a Marist monastery in Sahagun.
I will probably stay there on my journey which starts on the 26th of August from St Jean-Pied-de-Port.
Buen Camino.

 

[staucher]

A friend of mine Fth Phil Cody sent me a link from a Marist monastery in Sahagun.
I will probably there on my journey which starts on the 26th of August from St Jean-Pied-de-Port.
Buen Camino.

That would be the albergue de la Santa Cruz in Sahagun. It's a great place to stay with wonderful hospitality around a communal dinner! I stayed there after joining the camino frances on my way up from Madrid last year, and recommend it very highly.

 

[dougfitz]

The monastery of Santa María de Oseira on the Camino Sanabrés has an albergue run by the Xunta. It’s relatively new having opened in April ‘22. Pilgrims can visit the monastery and attend vespers with the monks. Those that wish to do so can also attend morning mass and laudes. The monks ask that you let them know the evening before if you wish to do so. A beautiful monastery, the second largest in Spain after the Escorial, in a gorgeous setting.

To be clear, the albergue is not in the Monastery, but adjacent to it, outside of the Monastery walls. Oseira was well worth the effort to walk that variant of the Sanabres.

 

[Kiwi-family]

We stayed here (Oseira) in June 2016. Coming in from a scorching day outside I described it as "refreshingly cool", but it only took about three minutes to turn into "perishingly cold". Have they built a new albergue? There was something special about this one!

 

[dougfitz]

Have they built a new albergue?

The new Xunta albergue opened in 2022. It is in a new, modern and purpose built building. The dormitory is designed to provide more privacy in its layout than the photo you have shared. It has a large common room/kitchen, a laundry (washing machine and dryer) and a seperate disabled area.

 

[Kiwi-family]

The new Xunta albergue opened in 2022. It is in a new, modern and purpose built building. The dormitory is designed to provide more privacy in its layout than the photo you have shared. It has a large common room/kitchen, a laundry (washing machine and dryer) and a seperate disabled area.

Sounds really nice......I'm a bit bemused about why they needed to build another building when there are already so many buildings there, but I guess they had their reasons (certainly the bathroom was not wheelchair friendly in the old building) When I was there, the refugee stories were big in the media and I wondered if it would be possible to bring a few hundred of them to the monastery and let them grow food and make a home there....and I supposed there would be other similar buildings around the country....but I am often told I'm a dreamer! Anyway, this is getting off topic.

 

[dougfitz]

Sounds really nice......I'm a bit bemused about why they needed to build another building when there are already so many buildings there, but I guess they had their reasons (certainly the bathroom was not wheelchair friendly in the old building)

I would expect that any business case for a new albergue building would have commented on what might have been the relatively higher cost of upgrading and maintaining an albergue in the heritage buildings of the monastery. Perhaps someone like @Rebekah Scott, who seems to have been involved in this sort of activity, might be able to suggest what issues were involved, not in the specific case of the albergue at Oseira, but more generally.

 

[M2ME]

View attachment 152352We stayed here (Oseira) in June 2016. Coming in from a scorching day outside I described it as "refreshingly cool", but it only took about three minutes to turn into "perishingly cold". Have they built a new albergue? There was something special about this

View attachment 152352We stayed here (Oseira) in June 2016. Coming in from a scorching day outside I described it as "refreshingly cool", but it only took about three minutes to turn into "perishingly cold". Have they built a new albergue? There was something special about this one!

The new building was very comfortable with underfloor heating when I stayed there this May. The heated floor in the corridor of the dormitory was great for drying out wet boots!

 

[David Tallan]

A friend of mine Fth Phil Cody sent me a link from a Marist monastery in Sahagun.
I will probably there on my journey which starts on the 26th of August from St Jean-Pied-de-Port.
Buen Camino.

I believe (although I am perfectly content to be corrected) that this albergue, Santa Cruz as @staucher writes, is actually attached to a Benedictine convent rather than a Marist monastery. The nuns used to run the albergue but it has been taken over by the Marist Fathers. I stayed there after my Camino de Madrid a few weeks ago.