Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes

While we strolled through the streets that took us to the monastery, we surrounded the stone walls that let us glimpse a wonderful collection of plants and flowers.

It was built in 1476 by the Catholic King and Queen to commemorate the Battle of Toro and it is one of the temples that constitute one of the best examples of Gothic-Spanish-Flemish style; it was made by Juan Guas.

The cloister has two floors and it is a wonder full of sculptures, windows, and a plateresque style cupola that is divided in big sashes and flowers carved in stone; the mudejar crafts carved in larch wood have beautiful lions that surround it. You can access the upper cloister through an iron staircase made in Spanish style.

The monastery of San Juan de los Reyes was built by the Catholic Kings to commemorate the Battle of Toro (1476). It is one of the most valuable examples of Isabelline-Gothic style in Spain.

It was built for the Franciscan order by the architect Juan Guas. In the temple’s façade we can see symbols of the Catholic Kings as well as de eagle of San Juan and heraldic decorations.

The inside’s perimeter is covered with a strip of commemorative text, something very common in Arab art, so we can consider it an adaptation of Christian architecture. The cloister is considered to be one of the Spanish jewels representing the transition from gothic to renaissance.