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The Puerta del Convento Inn takes its name from the baroque facade next to the entrance. This was part of the convent of Discalced Carmelites there was in this place, giving access to the church. Although the image holder was the Virgin of Carmen, Convent of the Remedies, the name of the original chapel existed here and next to that was called up. It was founded in 1682 the first Marquis of Benameji, Jose Diego de Bernuy. His great-grandfather, Diego de Bernuy Barba, had stayed at his home in Burgos to the very Santa Teresa, reformer of the Carmelite Order. The convent gathered a large collection of books and works of art that went to the church and the chapel or were sold after leaving the place in nineteenth century and the secularization of the Carmelites in 1835. In his church worship continued to exist until the final abandonment after the fall of the tower in 1905. Since then its materials were first used for other buildings. During the twentieth century it was tenement and suffer on earth movements of the nearby Grieta. Finally, the place became plasterwork and cowshed. The symbol of the Carmelites joined altarpieces, altars and bases still remain. As singularity appears in many of the artistic doors of Benameji houses. Today the inn, more than three centuries after the founding of the convent, recovers that symbol as its own emblem. Meson Puerta del Convento, the enhancement of a cultural space, a careful attention and quality service.
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