Convent of Our Lady of Consolation (Gotor)


Dominican Convent of Our Lady of Consolation

The Dominican convent in Gotor (Province of Zaragoza, Spain) is a convent dating from the 16th century, formed by a monumental church and a square-shaped cloister, attached to its southern side and which acts as a distribution center for the rest of the buildings .

The church has a straight head, a single nave and chapels between the mutually communicated buttresses. The presbytery is covered by a large dome that indicates the place under which it situates the family pantheon of the Moon, motive of the construction of the convent. The cover, classicist, opens on the western front and next to it, in the southwest corner, rises the bell tower.

Of the cloister barely preserves the perimeter walls and the start of the ribbed rib vaults, but it follows that it should follow the usual schemes of spatial distribution of this type of constructions.

The whole is large and is made of masonry combined with reinforcing blocks in the angles, buttresses and frames of the spans.

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