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Convent of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Alberic

Alberic, La Ribera Alta, Valencia

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Convent of Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Alberic

Monument · Alberic, La Ribera Alta, Valencia

Former late-17th-century convent located on the plaza del Maestro Albuixech in Alberic (Valencia), a Bien de Relevancia Local (a local-level heritage protection designation used in the Comunitat Valenciana), built in 1701 to house a community of Capuchin Franciscan friars minor of the Order of Saint Francis, who lived there until the disentailment of 1835. Its founding required a royal dispensation, since the minimum distance required between religious houses was not met between Alberic and the convent of La Alcudia; the community, never very large, usually numbered five or six friars. After the secularisation of the religious houses, the building was successively used as a primary school, a music academy, a prisoners' depot, a Guardia Civil barracks and a theatre-casino. Today only the church survives; it no longer holds services and is being adapted as a cultural space, next to the 18th-century Ermita de Santa Bárbara, within Alberic's historic heritage complex.

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Photo: Vicenç Salvador Torres Guerola (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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