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Chapel of Montserrat

The chapel is the seat of the Brotherhood of Montserrat, on Calle Cristo del Calvario. Leonardo de Figueroa designed it and it was built between 1704 and 1710; Diego Antonio Díaz and Matías José de Figueroa later remodelled it, and the latter probably designed the façade. It first belonged to the Brotherhood of La Antigua y Siete Dolores, which was dissolved; the building passed to the State with the confiscation of church property and, in 1939, was given to the Brotherhood of Montserrat, which had previously had a chapel in the courtyard of the convent of San Pablo, demolished when the street was widened. It is Baroque in style, with a single rectangular nave, a barrel vault and a false transept with a groin vault. The façade is of glazed-finish brick and is crowned by a triple niche with Baroque mouldings. Among its titular images are Nuestra Señora de Montserrat and the Santísimo Cristo de la Conversión del Buen Ladrón, a carving by Juan de Mesa from 1620. The brotherhood processes on Good Friday.

Things to do at Chapel of Montserrat: 4 missions

• Find Nuestra Señora de MontserratLocate the image of Nuestra Señora de Montserrat, the brotherhood's Marian titular image.
• Look for the Cristo de la Conversión del Buen LadrónGo into the chapel and find the Santísimo Cristo de la Conversión del Buen Ladrón, a carving by Juan de Mesa.
• Look at the glazed-finish brick façadeFrom Calle Cristo del Calvario, look at the glazed-finish brick façade and the triple niche with Baroque mouldings that crowns it.
• Walk the single nave under the barrel vaultWalk along the rectangular nave and tell the barrel vault apart from the groin vault of the false transept.

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Source: Web oficial - Hermandad de Montserrat