Monastery · Sevilla

Convento de la Merced Calzada

Today: Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Sevilla

Place: Sevilla
Kind: Monastery
Built: 1603 to 1729
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Open to visit

A convent of the Order of La Merced that Juan de Oviedo rebuilt from 1603, after the old building was pulled down: the church was finished in 1612, the cloisters are arranged around the imperial staircase, Leonardo de Figueroa remodelled the upper floor of the main cloister in 1724 and the doorway dates from 1729. Expropriated in 1835 under the confiscation, it has housed the picture museum since 1838, officially inaugurated in 1841 and today the Museo de Bellas Artes.

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