Gothic-Spanish-Flemish Monastery
While we strolled through the streets that took us to the monastery, we surrounded the stone walls that let us glimpse a wonderful collection of plants and flowers.
It was built in 1476 by the Catholic King and Queen to commemorate the Battle of Toro and it is one of the temples that constitute one of the best examples of Gothic-Spanish-Flemish style; it was made by Juan Guas.
The cloister has two floors and it is a wonder full of sculptures, windows, and a plateresque style cupola that is divided in big sashes and flowers carved in stone; the mudejar crafts carved in larch wood have beautiful lions that surround it. You can access the upper cloister through an iron staircase made in Spanish style.
It has one nave and chapels between the buttresses. The transept does not stand out in the floor. It presents a dome tower of polygonal floor. It depicts heraldic and epigraphic motifs. In the interior of the monastery you can visit the patio of San Juan de los Reyes and find there a refuge far from the city’s noise.
The visit hours in winter from the 1st of October to the 31st of March are from 10:00 to 18:00.
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