Archaeologists find rare Byzantine monastery in Spain

About 75 miles from the Spanish port city of Cartagena, along a branch of the old Roman Via Augusta road, a low ridge near the Vinalopo River has quietly held onto a secret for more than 1,400 years. Now, archaeologists excavating the site of El Monastil, near Elda in Alicante, have finally pried it loose: a fortified Christian monastic settlement likely built by people from the eastern Roman Empire who had settled in the nearby city of La Alcudia.
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