Monasterio de la Anunciación de Baiona
BaionaSpain Founded in 1547
The Monasterio de la Anunciación is a monastery of cloistered Dominican nuns located on Calle Diego Carmona, in the historic center of Baiona (province of Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain). It was founded in 1547, on an earlier 13th-century building according to the Rías Baixas tourism office, and the community still lives there today. It belongs to the Santo Domingo Federation, which brings together Dominican monasteries from northern and central Spain.
The church, built in the Plateresque style, features a Baroque altarpiece dedicated to Our Lady of the Annunciation, patron of Baiona. The convent is among the notable buildings of the city's historic ensemble. The sources consulted do not describe any retreatant hospitality.