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Real Monasterio de la Asunción(Xàtiva)

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The Royal Monastery of the Assumption or Santa Clara is located in the town of Játiva, Valencia. Its style is Gothic and Baroque, it was built in the 14th century and reformed between the 16th and 18th centuries. It was founded outside the walls in 1325.

The monastery formed a quadrilateral of approximately 70 by 70 metres, organised around a cloister. In the 17th century, the cloister was enlarged, although the original Gothic style remained intact and the church, with its perpendicular arches, was covered with a barrel vault with lunettes. In 1748 it suffered the effects of the so-called Montesa Earthquake, which affected the structure of the church, and the arches were replaced by a roof of wooden scissor trusses, hidden by the 17th century vault.

The rest of the Gothic church remains with the 17th century masonry cladding, with the original stone buttresses under the plaster plasterwork.

During the Civil War, the monastery was dynamited and demolished to a large extent, leaving today, in the area of the porter's lodge, the ogival door with plain voussoirs, through which the monastery is accessed from Moncada street.

The existing church today is a single-nave temple, built in the 14th century, with interior buttresses and chapels between them.

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