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It's unbelievable that my last visit to La Muela, a small pueblo about 17 kms west of Olvera, was just about 3½ years ago. So , on a lovely warm mid twenties day, I drove the short distance to the village.
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The scenery along the route is beautiful and with hardly any traffic, there's plenty of time to stop and admire it.
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The convent was founded in 1606 and inhabited by the monks until 1835 when it was abandoned although a Church remained on the site for another thirty years.
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Some of the relics from the convent are kept today in the Church in La Muela.
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