San Francisco-Spanish Essay
Monastery of San Francisco is in a natural high platform located in front of the centre of the Fermoselle village --made by the castle and parish church La Asunción remains-- which take up more territory than the surrounding particular workers’ house and farming spaces.
It was founded around the year 1730 following the Discalced Franciscans Order, it presents the uniqueness of having an own church known as “San Juan” and most famously known as “La Virgen de la Bandera”. It was attached the simple baroque monastery to this late Romanesque temple, being possible to read clearly both areas that were once joint together, after consolidating the ruins of the monastery in 1989.
The church is constituted by a simple floor with a single nave, square …show more content…
The kitchen, the pantry and the warehouses are identified in the Western corridor, also there are a small cloister with square floor plan and the dormitory area.
The monastery had a short life; around 1835, Mr Alonso del Villar, Spaniard who made good in America, found at this location the hospital of Nuestra Señora del Rosario to help those in most needy. Some years later, the monastery was disentailed, since then it was used as refuge, headquarters, etc., until it passed into the hands of the town council. The ruin ended with the building and just the church, where the patron saint of the village is venerated, maintained its use.
The restoration that was done in 2005 by the Ministry of Development to accommodate the House of the Natural Park about the Arribes del Duero, has allowed the ancient ruins are used as a communication nexus between visitors and monument, perhaps in a similar way that the Franciscan brothers and the Fermoselle residents did in the past with the
It was founded around the year 1730 following the Discalced Franciscans Order, it presents the uniqueness of having an own church known as “San Juan” and most famously known as “La Virgen de la Bandera”. It was attached the simple baroque monastery to this late Romanesque temple, being possible to read clearly both areas that were once joint together, after consolidating the ruins of the monastery in 1989.
The church is constituted by a simple floor with a single nave, square …show more content…
The kitchen, the pantry and the warehouses are identified in the Western corridor, also there are a small cloister with square floor plan and the dormitory area.
The monastery had a short life; around 1835, Mr Alonso del Villar, Spaniard who made good in America, found at this location the hospital of Nuestra Señora del Rosario to help those in most needy. Some years later, the monastery was disentailed, since then it was used as refuge, headquarters, etc., until it passed into the hands of the town council. The ruin ended with the building and just the church, where the patron saint of the village is venerated, maintained its use.
The restoration that was done in 2005 by the Ministry of Development to accommodate the House of the Natural Park about the Arribes del Duero, has allowed the ancient ruins are used as a communication nexus between visitors and monument, perhaps in a similar way that the Franciscan brothers and the Fermoselle residents did in the past with the