San Francisco Convent · Ciudad Rodrigo (EN)

Tradition has it that St. Francis was in Ciudad Rodrigo in 1214, staying in the convent of San Gil. Once he returned to Italy, he made two Franciscans come to Ciudad Rodrigo to found a convent in the same place where the convent where he stayed during his stay in the city was located. It was a building of great dimensions, of which today we can only enjoy the chapel of the Centenos and the Águilas (for which the wonderful sculpture of the Calvary was made, a work of Juan de Juni that is currently kept in the National Museum of Sculpture in Valladolid).