Aguas Vivas

Today: Convento de Aguas Vivas, Carcagente

Place: Algemesí
Kind: Monastery
Built: 1597 to 1695
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Private

A former Augustinian convent of medieval origin, whose present building went up in the 16th and 17th centuries, with the north wing finished in the 18th. Francisco Colom directed the enlargement of the cloister in 1597, and in 1695 the new church was laid out with its bell tower. After the confiscations it passed into private hands, and today it stands abandoned and decaying.

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