The Monasterio de Agustinas de La Encarnación sits in the heart of Seville, across from the Cathedral and the Archbishop's Palace. You can identify this site by its modest exterior and the bell gable, or espadaña, that rises above the…
Cloistered Convent Sweet Shops
This walking route guides you through Seville's quiet plazas and historic alleyways to buy handmade pastries directly from cloistered nuns. You will learn to use the traditional wooden rotating wheels ('tornos') and experience a serene, centuries-old slice of local spiritual life.
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1. Monasterio de Agustinas de La Encarnación
2. Convento de Madre de Dios
The Convento de Madre de Dios features a limestone doorway on Calle San José with a seventeenth-century relief of the Virgin Mary handing a rosary to Saint Dominic. This building sits in the San Bartolomé neighborhood of Seville. It was…
3. Monasterio Santa María de Jesús (Clarisas)
The Monasterio Santa María de Jesús on Calle Águilas is recognizable by a long, austere wall punctuated by a single mannerist stone portal. Above its lintel, two angels hold a cartouche inscribed with a prayer and the year sixteen…
4. Convento de San Leandro
The Real Monasterio de San Leandro occupies a large, quiet block in the Alfalfa neighborhood, anchored by an entrance on the Plaza de San Ildefonso that is marked by a simple Mannerist doorway. The Augustinian hermit nuns have resided here…
5. Convento de Santa Inés de Sevilla
The Convento de Santa Inés is a Franciscan Poor Clare monastery that hides its entire architectural complexity behind plain walls, with no façade opening directly onto the street. You find the entrance by looking for one of two small,…
6. Convento de Espíritu Santo
The Convento del Espíritu Santo sits tucked between the streets of Espíritu Santo, San Juan de la Palma, and Dueñas, distinguished by its seventeenth-century baroque portal bearing the shield of the Order of the Holy Spirit. This site,…
7. Monasterio de Santa Paula
The Monasterio de Santa Paula is marked by its imposing church portal, a detailed brick-and-tile creation crafted in fifteen oh four by the sculptor Pedro Millán and the ceramicist Francisco Niculoso Pisano. Founded in fourteen…