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In Plaza del Concilio the Trento lays this convent of the Santa Maria de las Dueñas Domininican nuns order. In its interior a beautiful moorish arc door is conserved. In its origins, the convent was a "mudéjar" palace for don Juan Sánchez de Sevilla. His woman, Juana Rodriguez Maldonado, donated it for the convent´s foundation in 1419. In XVIth century, the lateral façade was raised - in Plateresque style, the church - in Gothic style and the cloister, in Renaissance style. Most outstanding is the cloister, in an irregular pentagon form and with XVIth century original statues, a jewel of Spanish Renaissance. The church was designed by Fray Martín de Santiago, a Dominican, in the middle of the XVIth century and consists of a nave that contains a Baroque altarpiece. Also outstanding are the XVth century paintings, as for example, one representation of the Holy Family, kept in the nuns´ choir.
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Western Europe
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