Word: sacramenia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monastery looks much as it did when it was first built by order of King Alfonso VII in 1141-a low structure of age-mellowed limestone with a cloistered courtyard. Inside are three fine statues-of Christ, Alfonso VII and Alfonso VIII-taken from the original monastery in Sacramenia. Moss and Edgemon hope that enough tourists will pay admissions (probably $1.85 a head) to return them their investment and a long-term profit. Just to make sure, they have also added a few nonmonastic touches: a wishing well in the courtyard, piped music broadcast from a loudspeaker concealed...
...biggest and most expensive items in the vast art collection of the late William Randolph Hearst was a complete 12th century Spanish monastery that once stood in Sacramenia, a village near Segovia. In his imperious way, Hearst bought the monastery, had it dismantled stone by stone, and shipped (in 35,000 pieces weighing 2,500 tons) to the U.S. It cost Hearst more than half a million dollars and ten years of effort to get his treasure home. By that time, even Hearst was reluctant to spend the additional sum it would cost to rebuild the monastery...
...packed them off to Florida. In the summer of 1952, a small army of architects, masons and other workmen started the laborious job of unpacking and reassembling the stones on a 20-acre site just outside Miami. They worked from charts prepared by Hearst's dismantlers in Sacramenia; each stone bore a number corresponding to a position on the charts. The master mason who supervised the job called it "the greatest jigsaw puzzle in history...
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