CONVENT AND MUSEUM OF SANTA CLARA

Always welcoming Claristic sisters, order that chose to live in the lockout, the convent of Santa Clara wanted to open its doors to visitors to enable them to browse the spaces that are part of their daily lives, while of course respecting their silence. Furthermore, the Santa Clara Museum will allow you to cross the history of Zafra through its historical and artistic heritage, but also through the relations maintained with the house of the duke of Feria. Founded in 1428 by Gomez I, Suárez de Figueroa, the first duke of Feria, the monastery of Santa María del Valle, known as Santa Clara, had the primary function of satisfying the vocation of monastic closure of its daughters and ensuring a pantheon for the line of the Feria. Lineage with which the monastery maintained very close ties until the seventeenth century. All buildings and buildings include a period from the xve to the eighteenth century. A rectangular plan, the church has a vault in the cradle and a flat part of the seventeenth century. It will be noted in particular, his choir his sacrament, the coro of the Claristic sisters, his two portico, one of the mutiny style of the sixteenth century and another of the xviie, of the classical style and of course the funeral chapel of Feria's ducks, where the first duke, in a algae burial, rests., Gothic style and finally its cloister, the galleries of broken arches. Structured around three themes, the convent, its relations with the Feria and the city of Zafra, the visit of the museum will familiarize you with the daily and spiritual life of the sisters. It will show you some aspects of the nobiliary piety such as the enthusiasm for the relics collection and understand the development of the city parallel to the rise of the Suárez de Figueroa, translation of the will of them to give Zafra the dignity of a Ducal city, conforming to their own rank.