Exterior view of the old convent of Santa Clara. For Convent of Santa Clara, see Convent of Santa Clara (disambiguation).
The former convent of Santa Clara in the municipality of Entrena, La Rioja (Spain), was a cloistered convent of the religious order of the Poor Clares, which began to be built in 1503 and remained in disuse for lack of vocations and ruinous state in 2001. History
In 1503, Don Carlos Ramirez de Arellano and his wife Juana de Zúñiga, Condes de Aguilar and lords of Cameros founded the convent, then called the Convent of Our Lady of the Angels. The first that inhabited it were three nuns coming from the Royal Monastery of Santa Clara de Tordesillas being its abbess one Arellano. church
The adjacent church is Kings Catholic style, built in ashlar.
It consists of a nave with two sections and quadrangular head, with chapels like arms of cruise in the first section. The arches are pointed and the pillar supports fasciculates, columns and brackets.
The altarpiece of the high altar is baroque from the 17th-18th centuries with contemporary images.
The altarpieces of the chapels are also baroque from the 18th century.
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