- Madrid Original ®’s private guided tour to the Descalzas Reales monastery will highlight the value of the works of art preserved within the convent’s walls.
- [Woman inventorying painting with two Republican soldiers, convent of Las Descalzas Reales, Madrid].
- De Celenque, 2, 28013 Madrid, Spain, Madrid, Spain. 0.1 km to Convent of the Royal Barefoot Nuns Monasterios de las Descalzas Reales (Show map).
- Queen Letizia attended the re-opening to the public of the collection of the Convent of Las Descalzas Reales in Madrid.
- The grim plateresque walls of the Convento de las Descalzas Reales offer no hint that behind the facade lies a sumptuous stronghold of the faith.
- The Convento de las Descalzas Reales is housed in the former palace where King Charles I of Spain and Isabel of Portugal once resided.
- Just a short distance from Puerta del Sol, the Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales is part convent, part museum, and partly a place of power.
- But who are the Descalzas Reales (Scalze Reali)? It is a group of seventeenth-century noblewomen who chose to retire to this convent following the example of...
- Sister Mariana de Jesús, who was abbess in this convent [...] professed [...] in Santa Clara de Gandia [...] came to Rioja as foundress and was in that convent...