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433 - Monastery of the Cartuja
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Located on the right bank of the Guadalquivir and in front of the city, the Monastery of the Cartuja de Santa María de las Cuevas de Sevilla, is currently the headquarters of the Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art. In 1986 the and rehabilitated It was trying to recover its monastic, military and manufacturing past for the present and in 1989 it was transformed into a at the same time in a research and cultural dissemination center.</p>
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<p style=""text-align: justify;"">Due to its great wealth of mud and clay, numerous Almohad pottery kilns were installed, and it was in one of them, in 1248, that the the image of the so-called Virgin of the Caves. To venerate this Virgin, a church was created. first a Franciscan hermitage and in 1399 Gonzalo de Mena, the archbishop of the city of Seville, founded the Cartuja Monastery and acquired more land.</p> <p style=""text-align: justify;"">In its six centuries of existence, the Charterhouse has known moments of great splendor, here it was where the remains of Christopher Columbus were deposited for thirty years, given that he was a person who frequently visited the Monastery and in whose inn he prepared the monastery. his second trip. This place was also the spiritual retreat of Philip II, and was frequented by figures such as Arias Montano and Teresa of Jesus, as well as like, all the Spanish kings passing through Seville. In the artistic aspect the Monastery was enriched by with important collections by Alejo Fernández, Durero, Murillo, Cano, Zurbarán, etc.</p> <p style=""text-align: justify;"">La Cartuja, it was just a monastery, it was like a walled city in continuous change. In 1810 due to the Napoleonic invasion, the Carthusians and the Monastery were expelled and it was transformed into a monastery. in the barracks of the occupation troops. The monks fled to Portugal and did not return until 1812 and during the period of the Confiscation of Mendizábal in 1836, they left religious life.</p> <p style=""text-align: justify;"">Battered and abandoned the Monastery, Charles Pickman, an English merchant, acquired the monastery. the Monastery and installed A chinaware and Chinese porcelain factory was built in 1841. Initially the needs of the factory respected the building, however, the demands of production meant that all the monastic remains were used. Chimneys and ten ovens were built, of which five still stand. Until 1982 the china and porcelain factory continued. working.</p> <p style=""text-align: justify;"">The 1992 Universal Exhibition provided to La Cartuja of exhibition facilities that launched a new stage of the property. In 1997 it became at the headquarters of the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art (CAAC).</p>
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<p><strong>Tuesday to Friday</strong> from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.</p> <p><strong>Saturdays</strong> from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.</p> <p><strong>Sundays</strong> from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.</p>
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