Monastery of Santa María del Parral

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Calle Parral, 2, 40003 Segovia, Spain

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N40° 57' 21.6" W4° 7' 35.76"   (40.956, -4.1266) Start navigation »

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Monastery of Saint Mary of Parral (Spanish: Monasterio de Santa María del Parral) is a Roman Catholic monastery of the enclosed monks of the Order of Saint Jerome just outside the walls of Segovia, Spain, founded by King Henry IV of Castile in 1454. Despite a generally irreligious life, Henry IV was finally buried in the sister-house of Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe.
It was closed as part of the secularisation program of 1835, and its works of art were moved to the Monastery of La Trinidades at Atocha in Madrid between then and 1838. In the 1870s they were moved again to the Royal Gallery of El Prado in Madrid, where they were stored with little further research until some greater investigation took place between 2000 and 2003.

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