Cartuja de Santa María de la Defensión

Today: Cartuja de Jerez de la Frontera, Jerez de la Frontera

Place: Jerez de la Frontera
Kind: Monastery
Built: 1475 to 1667
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

The Charterhouse of Santa María de la Defensión, late Gothic in origin: its site by the Guadalete was chosen in 1475. It has a Renaissance gateway dated 1571 by Andrés de Ribera and a Baroque church façade built between 1662 and 1667 to designs by Brother Pedro del Piñar. The friars left in 1835, a Carthusian community lived here again from 1948 to 2001 and the last Bethlehem nuns left in 2024.

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