Convent of Santa Isabel de los Angeles

From the Franciscan order of Santa Clara. Dated in 1540, it closes one of the sides of the Duquesa de Parcent Square. The land where this monastery is located, apparently, in Muslim times housed the public jail for a long period, which connected through an underground with the Castle. This prison alternated with the other in La Mina where Christian captives were held as slaves. In the distribution of the city by the Castilian conquerors, this place corresponded to the marriage formed by Luis Oropesa and Catalina Treviño who, given the impossibility of having children, allocated these properties to the foundation of a religious institute, a monastery of Poor Clares, with the title of Santa Isabel de los Ángeles, referring to the former Infanta of Aragon and Queen of Portugal, of whom these patrons were very devoted. On the death of her husband, Doña Catalina Treviño entered the Monastery, dying there with a general opinion of sanctity. The Convent is accessed through a lintel stone façade, with the coat of arms of the Order in the center. Inside it has a Renaissance porticoed cloister, through which the entire convent is organized. Most of his works of art were destroyed during the civil war, although a series of baroque paintings and sculptures from the 17th and 18th centuries of great historical-artistic value are still preserved. The church has a single box nave with a raised presbytery, which was originally covered with Mudejar armor, of which a remainder remains in the upper choir. At present it is covered with a half-barrel vault with lunettes and transverse arches.