Convent of Santa Isabel
Monastery in Madrid, Spain
The Convent of Santa Isabel is a royal monastery in central Madrid, Spain. Belonging to the Augustine order of nuns founded by the wife of Philip III of Spain, Margaret of Austria,[1] it is located near the Atocha Train Station. A school for girls there had been founded by Philip II. It was designed in the 17th century by Juan Gómez de Mora.
Starting from April 1995 it has been a "bien de interés cultural" and monument under the administration of the Patrimonio Nacional.
External links
- Convent of Santa Isabel
References
- ^ Conrad Kent; Thomas Wolber; Cameron M. K. Hewitt (2000). The lion and the eagle: interdisciplinary essays on German-Spanish relations over the centuries. Berghahn Books. pp. 83, 106. ISBN 1-57181-131-1.
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Spanish Royal sites
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Royal Palaces1
- Alcázar of Segovia
- Alcázar of the Caliphs of Córdoba
- Alcázar of the Catholic Monarchs
- Alhambra
- Aljafería
- Buen Retiro Palace
- Castle Alcázar of Segorbe
- Castle of Bellver
- Castle of Burgos
- Del Real Palace
- Generalife
- Madinat al-Zahra
- Miramar Palace
- Monastery of Yuste
- Palace of Charles V
- Palacio de la Magdalena
- El Quexigal
- Palacio de la Ribera
- Royal Palace of Estella
- Royal Palace of Olite
- Royal Palace of Perpignan
- Royal Palace of Pedralbes
- Palau Reial Major
- Palacio Real de Valladolid
- Royal Alcázar of Madrid
- Torre de la Parada
- Valldemossa Charterhouse
Sub-national seats
- Castel Nuovo
- Royal Palace of Naples
- Palazzo dei Normanni
- Palazzo Regio
- Edificio de las Casas reales
- Palacio del Virrey (present-day the National Palace)
- Palacio de los Capitanes Generales de Cuba
- Palacio de los Capitanes Generales de Guatemala
- Palacio de Pizarro
- Palacio del Fuerte de Buenos Aires
- Palacio Real de Quito
- Palacio Virreinal de Santa Fé de Bogotá
- Palacio del Gobernador de Agaña
- Palacio del Gobernador de las Filipinas
- Palacio de los Gobernadores de Nuevo México
- Royal Palace of Brussels
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