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Monastery of San Jerónimo de Guisando

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Monastery of San Jerónimo de Guisando

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Monastery of San Jerónimo de Guisando

The monastery of St Jerome of Guisando, or of the Hieronymites of Guisando, is a ruined monastery of the Hieronymite Order located in the municipality of El Tiemblo (Ávila), at the foot of the mountains. According to the 1954 decree that declared it a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in the category of historic site — together with its gardens, a hermitage and some caves — it preserves a cloister transitional between Gothic and Renaissance and the walls of the church; the hermitage was built by the Marquis of Villena, and the caves are said to have been inhabited by Hieronymite monks before the monastery was built, in the 14th century, in 1375. The declaration also included, as part of the same historic complex, the nearby Toros de Guisando. A fire devastated it in 1979 and it has remained in ruins ever since.

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