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Monasterio de Santa María del Rosario.Monastery

It was founded in 1505 by the Mayor of Andalusia, D. Francisco Enríquez de Ribera. It occupied a space of approximately eight squares, almost square. The building consisted of a cloister with 56 Genoa marble columns with openwork stone skylights, around which the different rooms would be distributed, and a Church without a transept. In this, two altarpieces were built in 1572: one for San Jerónimo and another for Santa Ana. Its builders were the carver Pedro Becerril and the imagery painter Luis Hernández.

It had great splendor during the s. XVIII, due to the wisdom of its monks, among whom Fray Pedro Mariscal de San Antonio, Fray Esteban Rallón, Fray Rodrigo de Carmona, Fray Bartolomé de Cádiz, etc. stood out.

In the year 1895, due to the confiscation of Mendizábal, which brought with it the disappearance of many religious orders, it was abandoned, ending here the life of the Jerónimos in Bornos. Before, in the s. XVIII, also had to be abandoned, due to the damage caused in it, the tsunami of Cádiz. At present, very little of its structure is preserved: only a tower and part of its walls and orchards.