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Certainly the Franciscan order was always highly appreciated by the Ourense society since its arrival in the city in medieval times. The Gothic style monastery remained in the upper part of the city, outside the walls, between the 14th and 19th centuries. Today it is possible to visit the spaces of the old monastery that have been reintegrated in the cultural life of Ourense, except for the conventual church which was moved to the new urban center at the beginning of.XX.

The cloister of the monastery consists of 63 arches made in Gothic style, it has extensive sculptural decoration on the capitals, refined stone work that stands out for its beauty and also for the variety of its forms. The Cloister is open for visits and offers us the possibility to let our imagination travel through the stories that each of the figures that decorate the space brings.

In recent years, the city has managed to reintegrate the other spaces of the monastery to turn the environment into a cultural complex. In this visit we can also know the Anthology of Sculpture of the Provincial Archaeological Museum and the dependencies of the Provincial Historical Archive installed in rehabilitated spaces of the old convent.