Guadalupe - Monasterio

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Monasterio Description

The monastery buildings were erected at various times between the 14th and the 18th centuries, and as a result show great diversity of architectural style. The west front of the church with its two square flanking towers, the Torre de Santa Ana and Torre de la Portería, dates from the 15th century.

Hobbies & Activities category: Christian sites; Towers, monuments, observation deck

Monasterio Highlights

Camarin

Behind the Capilla Mayor, approached by a flight of red jasper steps, is the Rococo Camarín, which houses the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe. It contains nine pictures by Luca Giordano and

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Embroidery Museum

On the west side of the cloister is the former Refectory, now housing the Museo de Bordados, with beautiful embroidered vestments and altar-cloths of the 14th-18th Centuries, mostly made in convents.

Gothic Cloister

Adjoining the Mudéjar Cloister is the Gothic Cloister, with three galleries (14th-16th C.).

Monastery - Church

The Monastery Church in Guadalupe, which is entered through two bronze doors with scenes from the lives of Christ and the Virgin, was originally built in the 14th century and was rebuilt in the

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Monastery - Sacristy

To the right of the Capilla Mayor in the church in Guadalupe is the Sacristy, sumptuously decorated in Baroque style, with ceiling paintings and eight portraits (1638-47) by Francisco de Zurbarán of leading members of the Hieronymite order.

Capilla de San Jeronimo

On the altar of the Capilla de San Jerónimo is one of Zurbarán's finest works, "The Apotheosis of St Jerome", and the chapel also contains a trophy from the battle of Lepanto (1571) in the form of a lamp from the Turkish flagship.

Mudejar Cloister

Beyond the church is the two-story Mudéjar Cloister (14th C.), with fine horseshoe arches. In the center is a fountain-house in the form of a temple (by Juan de Sevilla, 1405).

Museum of Illuminated Books

In the former Chapterhouse (in the wing to the left of the monastery façade) is the Museo de Libros Miniado, which displays 86 illuminated books of hours and missals produced in the monastery, a

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Address

Monasterio de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe
Plaza Juan Carlos I
E-10140 Guadalupe
Spain

http://www.monasterioguadalupe.com

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