A nun's escape from the convent

The Monastery of Santa Isabel and San Antonio Abad de las Carmelitas Descalzas de Ciudad Real, also known as the convento de las Carmelitas, las Carmelitas, or convento del Carmen, is a religious building categorized as a cultural asset of interest since 1991. The monastery was initially the hospital of San Andrés. Antonio de Galiana y Bermúdez acquired the property, but the building was first intended for the nuns of Montesa.

The daughters of Santa Teresa occupied the building on the 11th of the month of 1596. The interior of the church follows a prototypical Jesuit floor plan: a single nave, a cupola over a cross with minimally developed arms, and a testero plano. The main façade is designed according to the typology created by the carmelite Fray Alberto de la Madre de Dios in the Real Monasterio de la Encarnación de Madrid. The main portal features a hornacina donde se encuentra la imagen de la Virgen del Carmen.

On the 7th day of the month of 1803, a Carmelite nun fled the convent. In a strange case of legend or reality, she escaped by sliding from the bell tower to the door of the church on the street of Carmen.

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