Cañas is a municipality of La Rioja, Spain.

[1] Its wealth and power culminated during the 13th century under the abbess Urraca Díaz de Haro, between 1222 and 1262.

[2] The nuns benefited from the patronage of the Haro family until its extinction in 1322.

[3] The community is still active today and retains fragments of its medieval library, particularly a complete Burgundian antiphonary from around 1200, and a Castilian missal from 1267 to 1279.

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