Old Convent of Jesus

In an irregular plot of 16,000 m2 several buildings are implanted that leave a whole series of open spaces articulating the whole. In the corner formed by the streets Gaspar Aguilar and Beat Nicolás Factor, is located the primitive conventual nucleus, formed by the church and the rooms organized around a cloister. On the northwest side there is a linear block of two heights that houses a health center. In an orthogonal arrangement to this, in isolation and next to the southern end, there is another linear block that currently houses the archive of the provincial council.

Old Franciscan convent, founded by Alfonso III the Magnanimous around 1428.
The church has a Latin cross plan with a straight head and barrel vault with lunettes over the nave, while the side chapels are covered with blown vaults. In the transept, dome on shells. Inside, the frescoes decorating the exedra of the tabernacle, the work of Vicente López, stand out, representing passages from the life of Blessed Nicolás Factor, whose sepulchral chapel was in this church.

Following the confiscation, the convent was converted into a spinning factory and later acquired by the Provincial Council and used as a Provincial Asylum . Once the Asylum has been moved, the building is used for administrative purposes by the Provincial Council (Provincial Council Archive), the Department of Health (Health Centre), the City Council (Municipal Board) and the Generalitat (Primary Care Centre).

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