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Convento de la Madre de Dios
Madre de Dios Convent

Built in the 16th century, the Madre de Dios convent is now home to the Hermanas de la Doctrina Cristiana. It has a beautiful cloister with Mudejar and Renaissance features. It is worth mentioning that it suffered a major fire in 1722 and was looted during the civil war, being restored during the 1990s.

Iglesia de la Concepción
Church of La Concepción

The ensemble is a 17th century baroque building commissioned by Alvaro de Castilla in 1614 as a convent and hospital, to which the church is attached. 

Hospital de la Caridad-Ruinas Antiguo Hospital de la Caridad
Hospital de la Caridad

The building has a single nave with no roof. The main chapel has a trapezoidal, eight-sided cross vault. There is a pointed triumphal arch and, on the Gospel side of the ante-chancel, a semicircular arch with a richly decorated archivolt. There is also an opening with a segmental arch.

Pendiente
San Benito Church

The building dates from the late 16th and early 17th centuries. It is currently privately owned and is being restored to be used as an apartment building. Of Gothic-Mudejar origin, it has a single nave, divided into four sections by pointed transverse arches, the apse being made up of two sections, a rectangular one roofed with a coffered vault and a semicircular one with a ribbed vault.

Osuna-Iglesia de Santo Domingo
Nuestra Señora de la Asunción Church (Santo Domingo Parish)

In 1513, the 4th Count of Ureña gifted the old San Sebastián Chapel and the adjoining charity hospital to the friars of the Order of Preachers so that they could found their convent. The Count had it recorded that the Chapel should not be demolished but rather incorporated into the new church. Its construction was completed on 7 March 1547.

Iglesia Convento de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria
Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Convent

Although its official name is Our Lady of Candelaria Convent, it has also been known as San Francisco or Victoria convent. It was founded on 1 February 1555 by Juan Téllez Girón, 4th Count of Ureña.    

La Luisiana - Pósito Municipal - Ayuntamiento
Pósito Municipal

This 18th-century building was the communal granary until the second half of this century. It was also home to the municipal administrative offices. Today, it is the Town Hall, and visitors can admire the beautiful groin vaults, typical of the colonial-baroque style.