Travel Guide Lupiana

Eleven kilometers east of Guadalajara, this village of less than 300 inhabitants is worth a visit to discover its magnificent monastery of San Bartolomé, declared a national monument in 1931. This fourteenth century monastery was the first to be established in Spain by the Order of Saint Jerome. Its architectural importance lies above all in the last cloister built, the processional cloister, a work of plateresque style by Alfonso Covarrubias, architect and sculptor emblematic of the Spanish Renaissance. Its design is reminiscent of the cloister of the Santa Cruz Hospital in Toledo, especially its staircase, and the former courtyard of the Archbishopric of Alcalá de Henares.