Monastery · Burgos

Cartuja de Miraflores

Today: Cartuja de Santa María de Miraflores, Burgos

Place: Burgos
Kind: Monastery
Built: 1532 to 1539
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

A charterhouse begun in 1454 after a fire, on the site of a hunting lodge; its vaults were finished around 1488, and it is above all a royal pantheon. Between 1532 and 1539 Diego de Mendieta added the side chapels (on the left side only), raised the church and gave it spires, pinnacles and the Gothic crested parapet. The church and an exhibition in its chapels are on the visitable route; the monks' cell area is not visited.

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