Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation

The complex consists of a church, the cloistered convent itself, courtyards, houses and warehouses.
The convent was founded in 1502 by Mr. Luis Mercader. Later Mr. Geoffrey Borgia, Bishop of Segorbe, improved and enlarged it. In 1881, Antonio Ferrer Gómez was commissioned to repair and reform the façade. In the period 1936-39 it was completely destroyed, being built again after the Civil War, ending in 1961.

The façade facing Guillem de Castro has a plaster plaster, segmented by pilasters and imposts, also smooth that form a grid in which the openings, all rectangular, are inserted. The ground floor is intended for commercial with independent accesses and semicircular arches. The church has a more differentiated exterior façade and with a small garden at the entrance. The façade to Balmes is less interesting although there is the access to the convent, where the original coat of arms of the Borgias is preserved.

The church has a nave with side chapels and a polygonal head covered with a half-barrel vault, and the main chapel is ridged; Lack of tower. The interior decoration is classicist, very recent and all the altarpieces and images of the church are current except for one of tiles of the eighteenth century, of 2.75 by 1.75 meters, representing the Annunciation, in the main chapel. A stone relief of the same theme, modern, on the façade.

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