Convento de San Esteban
Probably one of the visits which impressed me most in Salamanca was a visit to the Dominican convent of St. Stephen. The dimensions of the monastery church with its facade plateresca and ship more than 40 meters high in the cim
Borri, speak for themselves the power and grandeur that characterized a religious order directly associated with the prestige of the University but also, unfortunately, the courts of the Inquisition. enjoyed the walk along the upper and lower cloisters ran while on a visit at the request of Queen Isabella to Christopher Columbus made them defend against the Dominicans learned geographers of the University, the ability to reach the Indies by sailing West.
overwhelmed by the visit to Old Chapter House, before the actual construction of the convent. There could have learned instead the considerations and the not so holy privilege wrested from the Kings to be the only religious order with a mandate to bring doctrine to the New World.
Once again the human and the divine are inextricably intertwined in the actions of men. To not limit myself overwhelmed to contemplate the harmony of the cloister or the beauty of the staircase that links Soto and it was the work of Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón.
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