Since 1147 The historic Monasterio de la Oliva has its own place in the history, culture and spirituality which frecuented Mediaeval Europe, being situated in southern Europe in the "old Kingdom of Navarra" between the fertile vineyards of Burdeos and La rioja. Nearly 50 cistern Monks sing to God in isolation and live the worries of their fellow man, conserving the traditional crop of the vineyards in contact with the nature and elaborating wines which on the altar convert into the blood of Christ and in the European Courts were poured for the Kings. The copyists of the Cloisters and tne Monk farmers of the fields rescued for posterity the Imperial Greek-Roman Culture and built modern Europe on the old Imperial ashes. "Ora et labora" Worshipping God and Comunion with nature are the pillars which keep the dynamism of the Monastic Community Alive. One of those colonies of monks which crossed mediaeval Europe installed itself in "La Oliva" at the request of the Kings of Navarra in the 12th century. They had to built the temple artistically, the prayer Sanctuary, built up the Monastery garden of the Spirit, cultivate the fields, a guarantee of stability and economy. Work ennobles man and also the monk.