Cultural site
Convent of San Marcos
Spain
About
Renaissance monastery with a highly ornamental plateresque facade, begun as a twelfth-century shelter for travellers on the Camino de Santiago and home of the Order of Santiago. Now a parador hotel with church and museum, it held up to 7,000 prisoners in 1936-1940.
42.60181, -5.58211
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