Cistercian convent of San Clemente (Toledo)

The Cistercian monastery of San Clemente is since 1175 the monastery of Cistercian nuns in Toledo in Spain .

history

In 1131 King Alfonso VII donated the relocation of a Benedictine convent to Toledo in today's street, Calle San Clemente . In 1175 (officially 1180) the convent became Cistercian and still exists today. The current buildings date from the 16th and 17th centuries. Highlight the monastery portal in the Plateresque that Alonso de Covarrubias is attributed. The well-known marzipan from Toledo is considered an invention of the monastery and is now being produced there again. The convent belongs to the Cistercian Congregation of San Bernardo (CCSB) . The San Clemente cultural center of the Diputación (provincial government) of Toledo forms part of the monastery today .

literature

• Santiago Rodríguez Untoria and Jacobo Fernández del Cerro: De casa a convento. El monasterio de San Clemente de Toledo . In: La ciudad medieval. De la casa principal al palacio urbano; actas del III Curso de Historia y Urbanismo Medieval organized by the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha . Madrid 2011, pp. 1–34.
• Carmen Torroja Menéndez: Catálogo del Archivo del Monasterio de San Clemente de Toledo (1141–1900). Instituto Provincial de Investigación y Estudios Toledanos, Toledo 1973.
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 843.

Web links

• Tourism page to the monastery
• Newspaper article on monastery activity, Spanish
• Side to the Plateresque monastery gate with reference to the writer Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monasterio de San Clemente, Toledo. Retrieved November 20, 2019 . 
2. ^ Diputación de Toledo - Centro Cultural San Clemente / Melque - Introducción. Retrieved November 20, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 39 ° 51 ′ 29 "  N , 4 ° 1 ′ 42"  W