Church of St. Bernard de Clairvaux Exterior

HDR photo of the cloisters of the Church of St. Bernard de Clairvaux in North Miami Beach, Florida. The cloisters were actually once part of the larger Church of St. Bernard de Clairvaux in Spain, but some dude decided that he wanted to take them to the United States, so he had them taken apart stone by stone, labeled, packed, and shipped across the ocean, where they had to go in storage for like two and a half decades because he ran out of money. Then some other guys bought it and reassembled it in Florida. Really, I feel like it would have been less trouble to just build and brand-new old-fashioned monastery, but the resulting structure is lovely all the same.

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