Convento de Santa Cruz

Today: Convento de las Madres Clarisas de Santa Cruz, Santander

Place: Santander
Kind: Monastery
Built: 1641 to 1656
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

The convent of Colettine Poor Clares, built between 1641 and 1656 to a design by Fray Lorenzo de Jorganes, with a single-nave church, a cloister and living quarters; its founder was María de Oquendo. The nuns lived there until they were expelled in 1835, and from 1838 it was a tobacco factory until production moved away in 2002. The article gives it as unused since then, and its main door, on calle Alta, is now walled up.

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