Documents attest to the existence of a monastery here in the 9th century. The present building was finished in 1203. It preserves one of the very few decorated Romanesque tympanums in Cantabria, which depicts St George slaying the dragon, and is very finely crafted.
Place:
  Cerca de Riocorvo
Period of art:
  Romanesque.
Date:
  Second half of the 12th century.
Author:
  Petrus Quintana