Convent of Charity

Ancient hermina from the 16th century. Founded by Pedro de Miranda from Ronda, as Hospital de La Caridad. It was a public school, the School of Arts and Crafts of Alfonso XIII and the Convent of the Little Sisters of the Cross. It has a church with a single nave covered with a barrel vault with lunettes. The main chapel is covered with a dome on pendentives with oval medals. On the Epistle side there is a chapel covered with a groin vault. Outside, a brick facade with a stone doorway with a semicircular arch between folded pilasters, crowned with a triangular split pediment, within which a niche is located between pilasters that support a small cornice topped with pyramids with balls and a cross. Since 1925 it has been occupied by the Little Sisters of the Cross, an Order created by Sister Angela de la Cruz. Around this building there was the House of Recollection and Lodging for poor passers-by. As works of art of interest, we can cite an image of La Piedad, a polychrome wooden sculpture, from the 17th century and some canvases such as the Virgin of Guadalupe, from the 17th century as well; the Immaculate, the Holy Family, Saint Joseph with Child, from the 18th century.