Arcos de las Monjas

They are a succession of four semicircular arches made of masonry and brick cladding that cross the Judería street perpendicularly and are supported by the wall of the Iglesia de la Concepción (Church of the Conception). Although today they represent one of the most beautiful street patterns in Vejer, they never had a decorative or ornamental function. They were built towards the end of the decade of the seventies of the XVIII century as buttresses of the south wall and of the vault of the Church of the Conception, that experienced important fissures and threatened ruin as a consequence of the earthquake of 1773. The nuns' arches have been captured countless times by photographers and painters. It is worth mentioning "Las cobijadas" by the painter Francisco Prieto, whose scenario is the Conceptionist convent and the nuns' arches. It has been restored at the end of the nineties of the last century. It has integral protection.