This partially restored chapel, part of the former Convento de San Francisco, was one of Andrés de Vandelvira’s masterpieces, built in the 1540s as the funerary chapel of the Benavides family. Devastated by an earthquake and later sacked by Napoleonic troops, it was semirestored in the 1980s. An arrangement of curved girders traces the outline of its majestic dome, over a space where some of the fine Renaissance carvings remain, controversially left open to the elements.
