Convento de San Gil, Toledo
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The Covento de San Gil currently houses the Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha (the parliament). It was a
Castile-La Mancha, Spain) dating to the 17th century. The Dicalced Franciscans, or gilitos, arrived in this city in the middle of the 16th century, and established it in 1557 in the vicinity of the Ermita de la Virgen de la Rosa. Later, in the early 17th century, two brothers, Francisco and Juan de Herrera
, donated to the friars 16,000 ducats for the construction of the new convent.
The works began in 1610, and the master of masonry Martínez de Encabo promised to complete the church and the convent in four years.
Very likely the tracerist of the work was Juan Bautista Monegro, who, with Martínez de Encabo, worked in the iglesia de San Pedro Mártir.
The convento de los Gilitos, as it is locally known, is a notable example of the simplicity and sobriety of the Toledan architecture of the early 17th century.
The provincial
Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha
.
The building consists of two areas: the church, located on the east facade, and the convent area, which is distributed around a courtyard. All of these forms are a large rectangle.
See also
- Cortes of Castilla-La Mancha
References
- ^ Mariano Calvo. Historia y Arte del Convento de San Gil (PDF). p. 30.
- ^ toledo-turismo.com. "Convent of San Gil".
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