Corpus Christi Convent - Llutxent

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Address: Monestir del Corpus Cristi, 46838, Valencia

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Open holidays: No

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Set of buildings of different ages and styles. It was built in 1422 by the order of the Dominicans. In 1475 the first University of Arts and Theology of Valencia was founded. Inside, the neoclassical cloister, the belfry and the refectory stand out. The convent is articulated around three distinct spaces: the cloister, the church and a service courtyard around which the auxiliary elements of the monastery revolve (cellars, silos , warehouses, pantries, furnace etc.). The monastery was built mainly in the fifteenth century, but its current configuration with exceptions is the product of the reforms of the eighteenth century. The convent had a refectory, dormitories, hostelry, novitiate, chapter house and library, although many of these rooms have not reached us. The entrance to the monastery is through the south facade through a cover that connects directly with the cloister. The entrance door is a simple opening in the wall, formed by a low arch without any decoration. In the upper part we see a niche with a sculpture that lacks the head and arms, but everything indicates that it must be Santo Domingo de Guzmán, founder of the Order. This hypothes is supported by the fact that at his feet appears the figure of a dog, symbol of his person. Next to this door stands another door formed by a semicircular arch with stone voussoirs, but which is currently blinded. This bricking and opening of a new door is the work of the monk mason of the monastery, fra Josep Jordán, made in 1779. The reason for opening a new door is that the prior of the convent considered that the situation of the door did not keep aesthetics in the cloister because it was not located in the symmetrical center of the same, so it was decided to build a new door aesthetically centered. Above the blind door we also find a niche but it is empty where the same sculpture that we now see in its adjoining door would have surely be placed. Through the interior of the cloister we can still see the closing of the door that communicated with the exterior. The large number of open spaces in the conventual walls, some shaped windows and others in the form of balconies stand out. Some only serve to illuminate the upper cloister, others the convent rooms and the cells of the monks. Many of these bays are currently blinded.

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