Convento de San Marcos

The Convento de San Marcos was a religious circle in León, Spain is today a working extravagance parador inn. It additionally contains a sanctified church and exhibition hall, and is a standout amongst the most essential landmarks of the Renaissance in Spain. It is one of the best structural gems of León, together with the Cathedral, the Basilica of San Isidoro and la Casa Botines. It has a very fancy plateresque exterior.

The starting points of this building lie in the twelfth century, in the times of Alfonso VII of León. His sister, the Infanta Sancha of Castile, made a gift in July 1152 to develop an unobtrusive expanding on the edges of the walled city, on the banks of the Bernesga River, where "the poor of Christ" could remain. This would be a healing facility sanctuary of safe house for pioneers venturing to every part of the Camino de Santiago.