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Convent of Santo Domingo El Real
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The current church convent began to build toward 1568 by Diego de Velasco "Porter", it is accessed through a Renaissance portico supported on four slender Tuscan columns. Check the appearance in Toledo of the elliptical vault. It has two parallel aisles and several chapels with good altarpieces such as San Juan Bautista, the work of John the Baptist Monegros, early XVII, or the chapel of Silva, designed by the architect of the church.
The doors of the choir kept batientes Mudejar fifteenth century, framed by plasterwork. The chorus, rich artistic, took the first church convent of the fourteenth century. This is a building early fifteenth century, Gothic-Mudejar, decorated by numerous artworks. The extensive convent founded in the fourteenth century, is now divided for multiple uses, a portion is occupied by the Order of Comendadoras who manage a nursery, another is occupied by the archives and offices Cadastre.
The entrance to the convent next to this segment, quite distant from the church. The building complex is structured around two major cloisters, one Gothic and Renaissance another, sharing it with Mother Comendadoras. In his first season, when professed here daughters of Pedro I, ladies of royal blood, was expanded by buildings nearby, whose union forced to carry out demolitions to draw back from the street called Mailboxes, until then travel straight to the square de la Merced. This is the point of departure and arrival an emotional procession on Holy Thursday.
The square is dedicated to the poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and the writer Jose Ortega Munilla. Appeared as a stage in some films of Luis Buñuel.
Interesting facts of the monument:
Architectural Style: Gothic del Siglo XV
Report for the visit:
Plaza Santo Domingo el Real, S/N |
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