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Convent of Santa Clara de Valdemoro

Valdemoro, Comarca Sur, Madrid

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Convent of Santa Clara de Valdemoro

Monument · Valdemoro, Comarca Sur, Madrid

The convent of Santa Clara, or de la Encarnación, is a community of Franciscan Poor Clares founded in 1616 under the patronage of Francisco Gómez de Sandoval, duke of Lerma and lord of Valdemoro between 1602 and 1625; the design is the work of friar Alberto de la Madre de Dios, the most prominent architect of the time, who finished the plans in 1613 before leaving to build the Lerma complex. It is arranged around a square central cloister, and its façade combines masonry with bands of brick in the Toledan manner. The church, with a Latin-cross plan and a single nave under a barrel vault, retains an altarpiece with two 17th-century paintings, La Encarnación and El Calvario, and on its doorway the sculpture of Santa Clara alongside the coats of arms of the House of Lerma. It was declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 2016.

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