Santa Clara Monastery

Convent and Church of Les Caputxines de Santa Clara, built at the time on the outskirts of the city next to the Camí de Trànsits (1911). It belongs to the modernist historicism of a medievalist character. Medieval, Gothic or Romanesque historicisms, in their most orthodox or modernist-inspired aspects, as in this case, would be used for the construction of religious buildings (churches, convents, asylums, etc.) in the idea preconceived from the Romanticism that associated the Middle Ages as a time of religious spirituality.
With three floors, the building is arranged around a square central courtyard that serves as a cloister. It is built with mixed fairing masonry walls with band tile factory and hollow trim. This contrast of materials and some profiled tile elements are the only decorative motifs. The church is neoclassical and has a single nave, has a dome on an orthogonal drum with shells, and is accessed through a small courtyard that as an atrium separates it from the avenue, being the only part of the building visitable.

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