Monastery of Saint Isidoro del Campo Tour

The Monastery of San Isidoro del Campo is a medieval jewel that has places full of stories inside. In fact, legend says that under the monastery there was a school founded by Saint Isidore and, above it, a Mozarabic hermitage that housed the saint's remains.

It was founded by Guzmán the Good in 1301 as a family pantheon and today it continues to serve for the burial of his lineage, being the last tomb in 2017. The monastery was given by Guzmán the Good to the Cistercians so that they could pray for his soul, and they lasted for about a hundred years, until they were replaced by the hermit Jerónimos of López de Olmedo. This order was in charge of pictorially decorating the monastery, since the Cistercians were such an austere order that they only had a crucified Christ as decoration. It was an important focus of Protestantism and several monks had to flee because they were persecuted by the Holy Inquisition, since they were reading and translating prohibited books, such as the Bear Bible. It was then that King Felipe II expelled this order and gave the monastery to the Jerónimos, who remained there until its confiscation.

In the 19th century it was used, among other things, as a malt factory and a women's prison, for which the monastery suffered significant deterioration, but, after the restoration in 2002, it reopened its doors so that we can all enjoy the jewels there. inside, like the altarpiece by Martínez Montañés, considering his San Jerónimo the masterpiece of his production.