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Convent of Santo Domingo de Guzmán

Ocaña, Mesa de Ocaña, Toledo

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Convent of Santo Domingo de Guzmán

Monument · Ocaña, Mesa de Ocaña, Toledo

A Dominican convent of Renaissance design built in the mid-16th century in Ocaña, whose choir stalls have been attributed to the circle of Alonso de Covarrubias, who was also the architect of the cloister. It was built, initially called the convent of the Rosario, on land granted in part by Queen Joanna I of Castile, adjoining the old town wall; Prince Philip himself, the future Philip II, who spent much of his childhood in Ocaña, laid the first stone. It has been a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) since 2000. Its church, with three naves, a polygonal apse and six chapels with iron screens, was painted between 1888 and 1891 by friar Luis Santiago. The cloister, on two storeys, combines Doric and Ionic columns, and today houses the convent's museums.

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