Monastery · Ávila
Convento de la Encarnación
Today: Convento de la Encarnación, Ávila
- Place
- Ávila
- Kind
- Monastery
- Built
- 1630 to 1715
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Open to visit
A Carmelite convent of enclosed nuns, to which the community moved in 1513 and where Saint Teresa entered before founding her reform. It has a Renaissance façade, a chapel raised in 1630 over the saint's cell, an interior transformed in Baroque taste in the 18th century and a large bell gable of 1715. Its museum keeps relics of Saint Teresa and the original parlours can be visited.
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