Monastery of San Clemente (Monasterio de San Clemente) is a

Cistercian The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...

monastery A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). A monastery generally includes a place reserved for prayer which ...

with the

Bien de Interés Cultural A Bien de Interés Cultural is a category of the heritage register in Spain. The term is also used in Venezuela and other Spanish-speaking countries. The term literally means a "good of cultural interest" ("goods" in the economic sense) and inclu ...

designation in the Spanish city of

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

. Architecturally, it is a heterogeneous set of buildings, built in different times and styles, from the 16th to the 17th century.García Fernández, 1988, p. 30

References

*Arco y Garay, Ricardo del (1954). Sepulcros de la Casa Real de Castilla. Madrid: Instituto Jerónimo Zurita. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. OCLC 11366237. *Borrero Fernández, Mercedes (1991). El Real Monasterio de San Clemente: un monasterio cisterciense en la Sevilla medieval. Sevilla: Comisaría de la Ciudad de Sevilla para 1992, Ayuntamiento de Sevilla. . *Borrero Fernández, Mercedes (1987). «Un monasterio sevillano convertido en panteón real durante la Baja Edad Media». Anuario de estudios medievales (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas) (17): 133–148. ISSN 0066-5061. *García Fernández, Manuel (1988). «Regesto documental andaluz de Alfonso XI (1312-1350)». Historia, instituciones, documentos (Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla: Departamento de Historia Medieval y Ciencias y Técnicas Historiográficas) (15): 1–126. ISSN 0210-7716. Consultado el 8 de agosto de 2011.

External links

Official website
(in Spanish) * Christian monasteries in Spain Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in the Province of Seville Christian monasteries established in the 16th century {{Spain-Christian-monastery-stub