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Museo Conventual de las Descalzas

TIME : 2016/2/19 1:38:20

This museum, in the 17th-century convent of the Carmelitas Descalzas (barefoot Carmelites), approximately 150m east of town’s Museo Municipal, displays highlights of Antequera’s rich religious-art heritage. Outstanding works include a painting by Lucas Giordano of St Teresa of Ávila (the 16th-century founder of the Carmelitas Descalzas), a bust of the Dolorosa by Pedro de Mena and a Virgen de Belén sculpture by La Roldana.