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La Cartuja - Monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas

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La Cartuja - Monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas

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La Cartuja - Monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas

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1. Seville Cathedral – Barqueta Bridge loop from Sevilla - Santa Justa

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3. Palacio de San Telmo – Guadalquivir Riverside Walks loop from Cartuja

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Willem VS

November 15, 2024

The Monasterio de Santa María de las Cuevas, also known as La Cartuja, is a historic monastery located on the Isla de la Cartuja in Seville. It was originally built in the 15th century by the Carthusian order and has enjoyed a rich history ever since.
After the monastery closed in 1836, the building was converted into a ceramics factory. The factory became a major producer of pottery and was known for its innovative production techniques. Today, the monastery is home to the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), a centre for contemporary art.

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The Monastery grew on the fertile right bank of the Guadalquivir and in front of the city (on its way out to Italica and Aljarafe). Numerous Almohad pottery kilns were installed, and in one of them in 1248 the image of the Virgen de las Cuevas appeared. A Franciscan hermitage was installed first and in 1399 the Cartuja Monastery.
In its six centuries of existence, the Charterhouse has known moments of great splendor and others of serious crisis. Its situation on the banks of the Guadalquivir, has made the monastery successively hit by annual floods.
The remains of Christopher Columbus were deposited for thirty years, since the admiral was a regular visitor to the Monastery, in whose inn he prepared his second trip.
Santa María de las Cuevas was also a spiritual retreat for Felipe II and was frequented by characters such as Arias Montano and Teresa de Jesús, and all the Spanish kings passing through Seville. The Monastery was enriched with important collections by Alejo Fernández, Durero, Pace Gazini and Aprile de Carona; Montañés and Mesa; Murillo, Cano and Zurbarán; Pedro Roldán, Duque Cornejo, etc.
\ In 1810, during the Napoleonic invasion, the Carthusians were expelled and the Monastery, invaded by the French, was transformed into a barracks for the occupation troops. The monks fled to Portugal and returned in 1812, to be definitively exclaustrated in 1836 during the period of the Mendizábal Confiscation. Abandoned and dilapidated, the Monastery was acquired in 1839 by the English merchant Charles Pickman, who installed a Chinese faience and porcelain factory in the convent in 1841. The adaptation of the Charterhouse to the factory little by little used all the monastic remains. Several chimneys and ten furnaces were built, five of which are still standing. The faience and porcelain factory continued to operate in the Monastery until 1982.
In 1986 the Junta de Andalucía began the rehabilitation of the essential elements of its entire monastic, military and manufacturing complex. On the occasion of the 1992 Universal Exposition, which provided the building with exhibition facilities, a new stage in the history of this monument was launched. The last link in the Monastery's museum functionality came in 1997, when it became the headquarters of the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art. caac.es/inf/ins.htm

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La Cartuja - Monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas

1. Seville Cathedral – Barqueta Bridge loop from Sevilla - Santa Justa

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