Monastery of San Ignacio de Loyola Monasterio de San Ignacio de Loyola
C 6317 continues up the Urola valley to the monastery (off the road to the left) of San Ignacio de Loyola (alt. 115m/377ft), an extensive range of buildings erected between 1689 and 1888 to the design of Carlo Fontana, a pupil of Bernini. The monastery now houses a Jesuit college.
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Church
The church at the Monastery of San Ignacio de Loyola, with a 65m/213ft high dome by Joaquín de Churriguera, is one of the finest of its kind in Spain; it was completed only in the mid-18th century. The interior is richly decorated with marble and semi-precious stones, and on the sumptuous Baroque high altar, between twisted columns, is a silver statue of St Ignatius.
Monasterio de San Ignacio de Loyola Santa Casa
In the left wing of the monastery is the Santa Casa, the house in which St Ignatius of Loyola was born, which has a Mudéjar-style exterior. Visitors are shown the room in which the saint was born and the sickroom in which he resolved to abandon a military career.
