The Monastery of the Incarnation was founded in 1478 inside the walled city, being at the beginning of the 16th century when the Carmelite convent moved to the outskirts of the city, building the monastery on land acquired from the Cabildo and that, previously It had been the Jewish cemetery.

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December 24, 2021

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This Monastery is one of the essential places in the life of Teresa of Ávila, where she remained almost uninterruptedly from 1535 to 1574. When Teresa of Cepeda, without parental …

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November 5, 2019

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In these convents, outside the city walls, Teresa entered as a 20-year-old woman. She lived in this Carmelite convent in 30 and developed her reform plans for the Order here. …

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