Habsburg and Bourbon Spain

La Parra

Today: Spain

Years: 1492–1833
Role: Village with a Franciscan convent of nuns and the head of a rural deanery

In 1519 the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción became the head of a rural deanery that grouped fourteen places of the district, Barcarrota and Feria among them. A family of more than a dozen members settled in Venezuela in 1557, and in 1673 the convent of Santa Clara was founded. From 1834 it belongs to the judicial district of Zafra.

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Convento de Santa Clara de La Parra (Convento de Santa Clara): Monastery, c. 1673 to 1700

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