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Convent of Santa Clara
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Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 11: 00 and 12:00. Winter afternoons at 5:00 p.m.
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Other nearby places of interest are the Convento de la Encarnación, the House of the Heads and the Guadameci Museum Umayyad.
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Highights
This set has been variously called Santa Catalina or Santa Isabel until its total abandoned in 1868 when the religious community moved to He went to the convent of Santa Cruz and was transformed. in a school. At the beginning of the 21st century, numerous renovations have been carried out, affecting the church, the façade and the steps that give access to the minaret but it still remains closed waiting for A comprehensive rehabilitation must be carried out so that it can be visited.
The bell tower of the convent is he raised on the old minaret of the mosque of which the first section still remains, the upper part being from Christian times. Until the end of the 90s of the last century, some stepped battlements could still be seen crowning the building in the same way that they are still erected in the famous Mosque of Córdoba, part of which Unfortunately, today we lost.
Short description
Monday and Thursday.
Long description
King Ferdinand III after the conquest of Córdoba in the year 1236 he ordered build the city's first female monastery run by eight Poor Clare nuns. This Convent of Santa Clara was built on top of a mosque from the caliphal era which in turn was erected on the Visigothic basilica of Santa Catalina built in the 6th century, thus forming the one of the places with the most history in the city. It was declared A Site of Cultural Interest in 1931.
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