The Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales was placed where was an old palace. The same one where Carlos I and Isabel de Portugal lived and where their daughter Juana was born in 1535.
When Juana became a widow, after the death of her husband the prince of Portugal, she founded, in 1557, the convent that became one of the richest in Europe.
Juana is buried there (she died in 1611), in a chapel with a sculpture by Pompeyo Leoni. In the convent lived too the sister of Juana, María the Empress-widow.
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Address: Plaza de las Descalzas Reales, s/n Madrid 28013, Spain
Tel: 34-914-548-800
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