Tendilla, ES

Monastery of Santa Ana de Tendilla

This Jeronymite monastery in Tendilla was founded on the initiative of Íñigo López de Mendoza, Count of Tendilla, on a pre-existing hermitage dedicated to Saint Anne.

About this building

1836 the monastery was suppressed with the confiscation of church property, the community was dispersed and the monastery was the victim of plunder Most of the movable property was lost, but in the Cincinnati Art Museum there is still a triptych altarpiece attributed to Jan Sanders van Hemessen, from the mid-16th century, from this monastery, which is now in ruins.

For more information about this building visit https://monestirs.cat/monst/annex/espa/caman/cTendilla.htm

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