Convento de Santo Domingo
Former Dominican monastery whose gothic cloister and chapter house survive inside a working army headquarters.
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This guide to the Convento de Santo Domingo in Valencia centers on a single Sunday morning, the nineteenth of July 1936, inside what was then the city's Capitania General. General Fernando Martinez Monje commanded the Valencia garrison, and plotters behind the uprising against the Republic did not trust him, so they sent General Manuel Gonzalez Carrasco with orders to force him into the rebellion or push him aside. Outside, armed militants gathered at a party headquarters facing the plaza, waiting for a signal. The guide also traces the building's earlier life as a Dominican monastery, including the chapter house and cloister still standing behind its army facade.
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