- The Convento de San Marcos was a convent in the city of León, Castile and León, Spain, that is today an operating luxury parador hotel.
- San Marcos is now home to the Museo de León, keeping remains and works of great historical and artistic value, amongst them is the Cristo de Carrizo, a...
- ...they were driven out of San Marco in 1418, and in 1438 the convent was given to the Dominican Observants.
- During several subsequent visits to Florence, I visited San Marco Convent’s Museum, home of many frescoes by this revered artist.
- On our first morning we set off for The Convent of San Marco which dates from the 15C.
- The convent of San Marcos de León was the headquarters of the Military Order of Santiago, the most crucial and the most powerful in Spain.
- Donatello's bell at the San Marco Convent in Florence is a unique piece of Renaissance art, created around 1435, and commissioned by Cosimo de’ Medici.
- The convent of San Marco, transformed into a museum in the 19th century, houses one of Florence’s most spectacular collections of sacred art.
- That is why some of the statues that appear on the Plateresque-style façade of the Convent of San Marcos, and some medallions, represent Jacobean motifs.
- The Convent of San Marcos is one of the great architectural jewels of the Spanish city of León along with the cathedral, the Basilica of San Isidoro and Casa Botines.
