Monastery · Santiago de Compostela
Monasterio de San Pelayo de Antealtares
Today: Mosteiro de San Paio de Antealtares, Santiago de Compostela
- Place
- Santiago de Compostela
- Kind
- Monastery
- Built
- 1600 to 1793
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Open to visit
The Benedictine monastery founded around 830 and occupied since 1499 by cloistered nuns. The present convent began to be renewed in 1600 and was not finished until 1793; the church, on a Greek-cross plan, was begun in 1699 with the demolition of the earlier one and was inaugurated in 1707, and the plain façade of the convent faces the Quintana square. The Museum of Sacred Art of Antealtares is reached from the church.
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