Monastery of Pedralbes
Royal Gothic convent with a soaring cloister, medieval frescoes, and an alabaster queen's tomb.
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This guide to the Monastery of Pedralbes in Barcelona centers on a tomb carved with two faces of the same woman, queen consort Elisenda de Montcada, crowned on one side and dressed as a humble widow on the other. It traces her founding of the convent in 1326 while King James the Second was away, her commission of painter Ferrer Bassa's chapel frescoes, and the three-story cloister raised beneath emblems of the kings of Aragon. You'll hear what happened to her after James died later that decade, and why a Poor Clares community still lives within these walls today. Pause under the cloister's arched galleries before reaching the tomb itself.
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