Convento de las Bernardas

Today: Monasterio de San Bernardo, Alcalá de Henares

Place: Alcalá de Henares
Kind: Monastery
Built: 1617 to 1626
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

The convent of Cistercian nuns founded in 1613 by Cardinal Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas, archbishop of Toledo, built between 1617 and 1626 and now attributed to Juan Gómez de Mora. It was badly damaged in the fire of 1939. The nuns left in 2000, and it houses a museum of religious art.

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