Prompt - Cloisters formerly from Segovia Spain & Santa Maria de Ovila & Otranto Cathedral

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The cloisters at St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church, Miami, as they look today. (Photo: Public Domain/WikiCommons)



Photograph of the central yard surrounded by the cloisters of the St. Bernard de Clairvaux Church, Miami. (Photo: Rolf Müller/WikiCommons CC BY-SA 3.0)


View from within the 800-year-old chapter house brought from Santa Maria de Ovila, now at the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina CA. (Photo: Frank Schulenburg/WikiCommons CC BY-SA 3.0)

IN THE EARLY 1900S, ROBBER BARONS BOUGHT DOZENS OF CENTURIES-OLD EUROPEAN BUILDINGS. WHERE IS MEDIEVAL AMERICA NOW?

Okay one more.
The interior of Otranto Cathedral. (Photo: Lupiae/WikiCommons CC BY-SA 3.0)

The exterior of Otranto Cathedral. (Photo: Angelica Calabrese)

Oh and the original Starbucks Mermaid from Otranto Cathedral, likely served to remind the many travelers who passed through the cathedral to beware the temptations, carnal and otherwise, that might lead them to stray from their path.

THE SIREN ON YOUR STARBUCKS CUP WAS BORN IN 7TH-CENTURY ITALY