Convento de San Telmo

Today: Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián

Place: San Sebastián
Kind: Monastery
Built: 1544 to 1562
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

The Dominican convent that Alonso de Idiáquez, secretary of state to Charles V, sponsored on the slope of Mount Urgull; it was built between 1544 and 1562, in a style between Gothic and Renaissance, with the cloister at the foot of the church. In 1813 it suffered great damage and lost its main altarpiece, and in 1836 the friars were expelled and it became an artillery barracks. Since 1932 it has housed the municipal museum, with a palace-like façade that imitates the Renaissance, the church decorated by Josep Maria Sert and an extension of 2011.

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