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Monastery of Santa Clara de Medina de Pomar

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Monastery of Santa Clara de Medina de Pomar

Monument · Medina de Pomar, Las Merindades, Burgos

The Monastery of Santa Clara, in Medina de Pomar (Burgos), was founded by Sancho Sánchez de Velasco, adelantado mayor to Alfonso XI, and his wife Sancha García, under a deed granted in Baeza on 11 January 1313. Over the centuries all members of the Velasco family, except for the first constable, were buried in the monastery. It today houses a 14th-century Gothic church with a single nave and side chapels, the Velasco family pantheon and the Museo de los Condestables, with a Recumbent Christ by Gregorio Fernández. On the main altar three gilded rococo altarpieces stand out, along with the 16th-century Chapel of the Concepción. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) on 2 April 1992 and celebrated its seventh centenary in 2013.

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