Monastery of Aguas Vivas

The Monastery of Santa Maria de Aguas Vivas, located in the municipality of Carcaixent, Spain, is a spiritual building courting back to the 13th century. The cutting-edge building was built at some point of the 16^th and 17^th centuries with gothic and baroque patterns, at the same time as the North wing changed into completed within the 18^th century. The monastery belonged to the order of the Augustinians, guarded the picture of the Virgin of Aguas Vivas, consumer saint of the town of Carcaixent. In the middle of the 19^th century because of the Ecclesiastical Confiscations of Mendizabal, the clergymen needed to depart the convent, which became the property of the barons of Casanova, aiming at rural housing.

In 1977 the monastery was received and refurbished to destine it to hotel house through Antonio Vidal Bellver. Today is owned by way of a known businessman of Gandia. Throughout the 16^th and 17^th centuries the modern-day huge shape of the convent was configured. Francisco Colom, Valencian architect, led a spread of the monastery, particularly of the cloister in 1597. New works are dated in 1633, in 1695, while he is plotted and increase the new church with vicinity, vestry, altarpiece and Bell, Tower by using Browning some altars.