Convent of the Conceptionist Nuns

This former convent of the Franciscan Conception was founded in 1528 by Don Diego Lopez Pacheco, beginning its activity in 1546 with the entry of the Conceptionist nuns, who left it definitively in 2005. The church, of Greco-Roman plan and Romanesque style, has a vault of four sections and a two-story Romanesque cloister. The four wings of the building are built around the central cloister, being the western side where the parish church was built, while the rest of the wings are reserved for the conventual life. Access to the church is from the doorway facing Calle Parral, where there is also access to the landscaped garden protected by a stone wall. The entire exterior wall is supported by powerful buttresses, with a small brick belfry on the closing wall of the nave. The nave is covered with a profusely decorated lunette vault, with the low choir and the high choir at the back. At present, the convent is privately owned and is dedicated to the hotel and restaurant business.