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Convent of la Encarnación de Boadilla

Boadilla del Monte, Área Metropolitana, Madrid

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Convent of la Encarnación de Boadilla

Monument · Boadilla del Monte, Área Metropolitana, Madrid

The convent of la Encarnación was built in 1674 to house a community of Discalced Carmelites, on the initiative of María de Vera y Gasca; the complex brings together, besides the church, the Chaplains' house and the guesthouse. The order remained there until the 1970s. In 1974 it was declared a Historic Ensemble together with the neighbouring Palace of Infante Don Luis, and in 1998 it was restored and turned into a hotel. The church, with a Latin-cross plan and a hemispherical dome over the crossing, has an austere brick façade in the sober Madrid Baroque style, preceded by the atrium typical of seventeenth-century Carmelite churches. Built on the plaza del Rosario, it is one of the oldest buildings the town retains, a witness to the Boadilla that existed before the arrival of Infante Don Luis in the eighteenth century.

Photo: Dirección General de Turismo. Consejería de Economía e Innovación Tecnológica. Comunidad de Madrid. (CC BY 3.0 es)

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