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Convento de Montevirgen

Villalba de los Barros, Tierra de Barros, Badajoz

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Convento de Montevirgen

Monument · Villalba de los Barros, Tierra de Barros, Badajoz

Image of Villalba de los Barros, not of the place itself.

Franciscan monastery located 2.5 km from Villalba de los Barros, next to the Guadajira river, with a rectangular nave, a vaulted chapel and a cloister with twelve pillars. The original hermitage became a monastery in 1568; local tradition tells that the image of the Virgin repeatedly disappeared from Zafra and returned to this spot, a sign interpreted as divine will to build the sanctuary here.

1568 (conversión en monasterio)

Photo: Jmpmontes (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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