After many years of negotiations, the Carmelite monks obtained authorization from the English government to build a church and convent for their order in Maó. The building, which was started in 1750, took more than 70 years to complete. The church is the largest in the town. It has a Latin-cross layout and follows the aesthetical canons of Neoclassicism. The main façade, of which the gigantic columns of the doorway and two bell towers were to be the main features, was never completed. And neither was the cloister completed as per the original design – with a vaulted roof –, a simpler, cheaper solution being adopted. The Carmelites were expelled in 1835 by Mendizábal ecclesiastical confiscation law. From then on the building was used as a market, a prison, a courtroom and a girls’ school, all of which led to different alterations. At present Maó market is still located in the former convent of El Carme, and shares the space with numerous cultural bodies such as the open university UNED, the Conservatory of Music, the municipal exhibition room or the Hernández Mora Foundation, where interesting graphic and decorative artworks from the 18th to 20th centuries are exhibited
Built on a temple eighteenth, is the first building in the city Franciscan stamp order landed at San Francisco s. XV. The decoration of the chapel is one of the highlights of the set. The Church of Sant Francesc is a single nave and notable for its Romanesque and Baroque façade. Inside special mention of the Conception Chapel and its richly decorated with arches and columns. Currently the premises of the former Convent of San Francisco is home to the Museum of Menorca
Church of Sant Francesc, founded in the thirteenth century, destroyed by the Turkish assault in 1558, and restored and renovated at various times. Located between the late Gothic and neoclassical severity, the parish church of Sant Francesc de Ciutadella, the ancient church of the Franciscan convent, is the most spacious in the city after the Cathedral of Menorca. The convent was founded by Alfonso III on March of 1287 by giving the Franciscans an orchard and adjoining houses, and was inhabited by monks convent until 1506 when they were replaced by Observant Franciscans. With the Turkish invasion of 1558 the buildings were completely destroyed and 12 of his brothers brought to Constantinople. The first church was built four chapels on each side between 1569 and 1572, should not have to be appropriate.
The Roser, old church of Nuestra Señora del Roser, was built between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It is located across the street from Roser and noted for its nineteenth century bell tower. It is one of the most interesting examples of the Baroque period Menorcan of single nave covered with vaults with three chapels on each side and a cruiser, which has the same width as the nave, covered with a dome topped with a lantern . The most surprising of the interior is the use of fluted stone seas in almost all the ornaments of bows, reeds and edges of the vaults, and domes that top shell roofs of the chapels and the great balance of proportions interior.En space is currently used as an exhibition hall and inside are made throughout the year numerous cultural events.
Located on the road leading to the cemetery, at the northern end of Alaior , is the chapel of Sant Pere Nou, thus named because replaced with the same name that is was in the flat floor of the lift of the town and was known as "Sant Pere bassa". Built in the seventeenth century, the architecture of Sant Pere Nou combines Gothic, Baroque and late. Opposite the church is a pleasant plaza with trees that, due to its elevated position, has good views over the village.
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