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Convento de San Pascual, Aranjuez

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Location
  
Aranjuez, Spain

Criteria
  
Monument

Reference no.
  
RI-51-0010465

Province
  
Community of Madrid

Type
  
Non-movable

Designated
  
1999

Phone
  
+34 918 91 78 50

Architect
  
Francesco Sabatini

Convento de San Pascual, Aranjuez

Address
  
Calle del Rey, 75, 28300 Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain

Similar
  
San Antonio de Padua - Ar, Casa del Labrador, Royal Convent of Santa Cla, Iglesia de Alpajés, Royal Palace of Aranjuez

The Convento de San Pascual is a royal monastery in Aranjuez, in the Community of Madrid, Spain, founded by King Charles III of Spain as a Franciscan monastery and built from 1765 to 1770. Under the reign of Isabel II of Spain, it was assigned to the Conceptionist nuns, and now is under the administration of the Patrimonio Nacional.

The architect was the Italian Francesco Sabatini. The main altar has a painting by Anton Raphael Mengs.

It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1999.

References

Convento de San Pascual, Aranjuez Wikipedia