- 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.
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- ...monastery which later passed to the Silvestrines; they were driven out of San Marco in 1418, and in 1438 the convent was given to the Dominican Observants.
- On our first morning we set off for The Convent of San Marco which dates from the 15C. Cosimo de Medici the elder, ruler of Florence, was a very wealthy man...
- The Museum and Convent of San Marco occupies a large area of the Dominican convent of St...
- 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.
- The convent of San Marco, transformed into a museum in the 19th century, houses one of Florence’s most spectacular collections of sacred art.
- About the Convent of San Marco: One of the artists associated with Florence is Blessed Fra Angelico , who lived in the first half of the 15th Century.
- 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.
- 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.
