The city of Antequera stands out for being one of the most architecturally rich in Spain.
This monastery of Minim Sisters was founded, consecrated to Saint Euphemia, patron saint of the city, as chosen by the then City Council on September 16, 1410. The current church was built between 1739 and 1763, designed and begun by the master Cristóbal García. Externally it presents a graceful play of volumes and roofs.
Calle Belén, 4, Antequera, Málaga
Santa Eufemia Convent
This building belonged to the Minim friars of San Francisco de Paula, who abandoned it after the Confiscation, currently occupying the whole the Congregation of Tertiary Religious, founded by the Antequera Mother Carmen del Niño Jesús.
4-6, Carrera Madre Carmen Street, 4A.
Convent of La Victoria
The convent belongs to the order of the Dominican nuns. The primitive church was replaced by the current one, which is the work of the master builder Andrés Burgueño.
Plaza Coso Viejo, 3, Antequera, Málaga
Santa Catalina de Siena Convent
She belongs to the community of Carmelite Mothers of the Old Observance. The works were not to be completed until 1580.
3, Calle los Tintes, 1, Antequera, Málaga
Convent of the Incarnation
The Catholic Monarchs, by Royal Decree given in Granada on September 18, 1500, granted license to the city to cede land to the Observant Franciscans, to found the monastery of San Zoilo and the orchard.
San Francisco Square, Antequera, Malaga
Monastery of San Zoilo
Few monuments from Antequera have aroused as much interest among art scholars as this conventual church of Agustinas de la Madre de Dios de Monteagudo.
Street Lucena, 41, Antequera, Málaga
Convent of Madre de Dios de Monteagudo
The old convent of Santa Clara de la Paz was founded by the Franciscan Poor Clare nuns in 1603, although the works of the current church did not begin until 1633 according to a project by the architect Fernando de Oviedo.
Santa Clara Street, 3, Antequera, Malaga
Convent of Santa Clara
The Conventual Museum of the Descalzas de Antequera, inaugurated on October 16, 1999, preserves and exhibits one of the most beautiful artistic treasures of the city of Antequera. Its permanent collection consists of an important number of artistic pieces of the highest level that the community of Carmelite mothers has been able to preserve through the centuries and that is now exhibited for the enjoyment of those who visit this institution.
Plaza de las Descalzas, 3, Antequera, Málaga
Conventual Museum of the Discalced
It is the first of the Capuchin convents built in Andalusia. Its foundation dates back to 1613 and then belonged to the Province of Castile. It will be the first convent to be recovered and restored in Spain after the exclaustration, being its first guardian the V.P. Esteban de Adoáin. It was Seraphic Seminary until the decade of the 70s of the last century.
Camino de Capuchinos, 2, Antequera, Málaga
Capuchin Church
This convent belonged to the Discalced Carmelites until the nineteenth century, when it became occupied by the Poor Clare Sisters, who still reside in it as cloistered nuns and are dedicated to some crafts, including the elaboration of mantecados and sweets in general. This temple that we can admire today was already being built in 1628 by the Portuguese Gonzalo Yáñez, and has a sober façade, carved in stone and brick combined.
Calle Belén, 6, Antequera, Málaga
Convent of Bethlehem
The order of the Discalced Trinitarians founded this convent in Antequera on August 2, 1637. The current temple was built between 1672 and 1683, owing the traces to the architect friar of the same order, Fray Pedro del Espíritu Santo. The church model that is followed is the one that derives from the Incarnation of Madrid, the work of Juan Gómez de Mora. The façade is a rectangle framed by two smooth pilasters and crowned by a triangular pediment, articulating the central panel in three horizontal zones and three streets.
Calle Cruz Blanca, 18, Antequera, Málaga
Parish of La Santisima Trinidad Antequera
This museum does not offer works of art but “a space for silence and recollection”, dealing with a chapel where objects and memorabilia of Mother Carmen of the Child Jesus are exhibited.
Carrera Madre Carmen Street, 4, Antequera, Malaga
Blessed Mother Carmen Exhibition
