Convent of Santa Maria de Mave in Santa María de Mave, Spain

This building is in the village of Santa Maria de Mave , The village takes name from the church and convento at its centre and is close to the larger settlement of Mave close to the border of Cantabria and Castile y Leòn . In Spain the term Convento is used to distinguish the institution as housing a group of religious members of an order which is active in the community in which it is based as opposed to a contemplative, isolated order in which case the building would be termed a monestery. To a certain extent the terms are interchangeable and the term "convent" certainly does not imply th...