Dismantling of San Martín de Fuentidueña, which began at the end of 1957.Alejandro Ferrant Archive
Franco supported the transfer stone by stone to New York of the Romanesque temple of Fuentidueña (Segovia) despite being protected as a national monument. “The dictatorship was interested in strengthening relations with the US,” says María José Martínez, co-author of a book that recounts the odyssey of this 12th-century jewel
Sunday, May 28, 2023, 00:14
At dawn on Friday, February 14, 1958, the cargo ship ‘Monte Navajo’, of the Kerr Steamship Line, arrived at the port of New York with a Spanish national monument in its holds. Dismembered into 3,396 stone blocks packed in 839 individual boxes,…
