Monasterio+de+las+Descalzas+Reales

 The Monastery of the Barefoot Royals, in Madrid, occupies the old palace where they resided Carlos I and Isabel of Portugal, where he was born in 1535, his daughter Joanna. This, and widow of the Prince of Portugal, founded in 1557 the convent of barefoot Franciscan nuns. She is buried in a chapel, praying funerary sculpture by Pompey Leoni. At the close preserves the structure and many decorative plateresque palace. In this monastery Juana lived and then his sister Mary, Dowager Empress, who died here in 1603. Seventeenth century are preserved frescoes on the staircase and in the Chapel of the Miracle. They emphasize the tapestries woven in Brussels, from cartoons by Rubens, representing the Apotheosis of the Eucharist, this monastery commissioned by Philip II's daughter, the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia, Governor of the Netherlands. 