Las Descalzas Reales

Austere façade of the convent of Las Descalzas.

Juana Of Austria, sister of Philip II, transformed the palace into a convent, which has numerous and important art pieces.

It's a building of brick and granite. Pieces by Pompeyo Leoni, Claudio Coello, Tiziano, Zurbarán, Murillo, Ribera and Brueghel compose the richness of this building, representative of the solid and sober urban architecture of the 16th-century.  

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