Monastery · Madrid

Real Monasterio de la Encarnación

Today: Real Monasterio de la Encarnación, Madrid

Place
Madrid
Kind
Monastery
Built
1611 to 1616
What remains
Standing
Visiting
Open to visit

The convent of Augustinian Recollect nuns founded by Queen Margarita of Austria, wife of Felipe III, built between 1611 and 1616 by fray Alberto de la Madre de Dios. Its plain, Herrerian façade set a pattern for Spanish churches. The old enclosure holds a Patrimonio Nacional museum that can be visited, with the reliquary that keeps the phial of Saint Pantaleon.

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