It is one of the most important monuments in Baroque style in Spain.

It was built in 1517, by a donation made by Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (The great captain).

As a result of the combination of numerous styles, the construction was so long. Its Plateresque façade consists of a round arch over which there is a vaulted niche with the image of the Virgin inside by Juan García de Pradas in the XVI Century, and Renaissance cloister, with paintings of Carducho and Sánchez- Cotán.

Its church is a beautiful temple from the end of the XVIII Century, with only one nave divided into four bays.

In the chancel which is covered by a Baroque oval dome, the Major Altar should be highlighted; it is a golden wooden altar-baldachin, carried out by the sculptor Francisco Hurtado Izquierdo (XVIII) that houses an Assumption of the sculptor José Mora.

Its marvellous Chapel of the Tabernacle, by Francisco Hurtado Izquierdo, was built in the first quarter of the XVIII Century and is finished off with a dome painted by Antonio Palomino. In the space between two columns there are sculptures of St. Joseph and St. Bruno by José Mora, the Magdalene (by P. Duque Cornejo) and St. John the Baptist (by J. Risueño).

The sacristy is also from this time, it was started in 1713 by an unknown master.

It is rectangular, covered by a barrel vault with four different bays and with a Baroque oval dome.

It seems that the small cloister was carried out by Brother Alonso de Ledesma, in the middle of the XVI Century, as well as the church and the great cloister that was ruined in the middle of the XIX Century.

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