Monastery · Uclés

Real Monasterio de Santiago de Uclés

Today: Monasterio de Uclés, Uclés

Place: Uclés
Kind: Monastery
Built: 1529 to 1735
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

The mother house of the Order of Santiago, whose present monastery began to be built on 7 May 1529 with the Plateresque east wing, on plans by Enrique Egas. The Herrerian-style church was finished between 1598 and 1602 and earned the name «Escorial de la Mancha»; the Churrigueresque south front, attributed to Pedro de Ribera, dates from 1735. It lost the spires of two towers in the fires of 1845 and 1877, and was a minor seminary until 2012.

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