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Collegiate church of Santillana of the Sea
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Colegiata of Santa Juliana of Santillana of the Sea, Autonomous Community of Cantabria (Spain), to which owes its name this Cantabrian (Sant Iuliana - Santillana) town, is one of the monuments more representative románicos of the region. National Monument was declared in 1889.Supuestamente young Juliana was martyred in smaller Asia during (today Turkey) the persecutions undertaken by the emperor Diocleciano at the end of the century III, and her remains brought in the century IX to this place for some monks pilgrims. Already in that moment (the documents locate it in 870) a hermitage was built under the saint's invocation where to guard and to worship its relics, and then a monastery that prospered under the protection of the local nobility. It was the king Fernando I of Castile, in 1045 who gave him/her the definitive impulse for grant of important privileges, one of those which consisted on putting their abbot's low sovereignty the village and their possessions. The primitive temple was substituted in time románica by the one that, with diverse added and you reform, it has been conserved until today that dates of the XII century. In their origins it constituted a Benedictine monastery, but in the XI century he/she acquired the colegiata range governed by a community of canons of San Agustín.
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