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Convent of San Bernardo

Alcalá de Henares, Cuenca del Henares, Madrid

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Convent of San Bernardo

Monument · Alcalá de Henares, Cuenca del Henares, Madrid

Founded in 1613 by Cardinal Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas, its oval-plan church, built to designs by Juan Gómez de Mora and carried out by Sebastián de la Plaza, strings together six side chapels beneath a great elliptical dome.

Photo: Raimundo Pastor & Elizabeth Sosa Tejada (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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