Monastery in Madrid, Spain
The Convent of Santa Isabel is a royal monastery in central Madrid , Spain . Belonging to the Augustine order of nuns founded by the wife of Philip III of Spain , Margaret of Austria ,[ 1] it is located near the Atocha Train Station . A school for girls there had been founded by Philip II . It was designed in the 17th century by Juan Gómez de Mora .
Since April 1995 it has been a "bien de interés cultural" monument under the administration of the Patrimonio Nacional .
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^ Conrad Kent; Thomas Wolber; Cameron M. K. Hewitt (2000). The lion and the eagle: interdisciplinary essays on German-Spanish relations over the centuries . Berghahn Books. pp. 83, 106. ISBN 1-57181-131-1 .
Royal sites of the Patrimonio Nacional
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