Convent dels Pares Servites
A convent founded after the repopulation that followed 1609, when nine Servite monks arrived. Its present appearance dates from 1763 and its architecture is post-baroque and pre-academic. After the Mendizábal confiscation it lost its religious use, was fortified and used by the Carlists in 1836.
The Convent dels Pares Servites in Montán was founded after the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1609, when 29 families and 9 Servite monks arrived in the town. The present appearance of the convent dates from 1763 and its architecture is post-baroque and pre-academic. After the Mendizábal confiscation it was dismantled and lost its use as a convent. Later the building was fortified and used by the Carlists in 1836. That succession of uses explains the current state of the complex and its interest as a record of the municipality's history over the centuries.
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