Miami's Ancient Spanish Monastery

Miami's Ancient Spanish Monastery

The "Ancient Spanish Monastery" in Miami was originally built in 1141 A.D. in Europe and was imported brick-by-brick into the U.S. in 1925 by media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, making it the oldest European building in the Western Hemisphere.

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