Monastery · Alfahuir

Monasterio de Cotalba

Today: Monasterio de San Jerónimo de Cotalba, Alfahuir

Place: Alfahuir
Kind: Monastery
Built: 16th to 18th century
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

A Hieronymite monastery founded in 1388 by Alfonso of Aragon the Elder and built between the 14th and 18th centuries. In the 16th century the Duchess of Gandía, María Enríquez de Luna, commissioned the east wing of the upper cloister, and the north and west galleries date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The monks left in 1835, and it has been open to the public since 2005.

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