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Origins
Hotel Monasterio de Tejeda
The image of the Virgin of Tejeda was found by a shepherd in a yew tree (1205), hence its name, although to this day there is some doubt as to whether it was found in this place or in a nearby cave. With the arrival of the Trinitarios Calzados, the church and convent were built near the place where she was found, next to the river Ojos de Moya.
The current building has two cloisters, one open from the 17th century and the other baroque, closed, with two floors and a central courtyard, where you can lose yourself and enjoy its endless corridors and ancient walls. An ideal place to meditate and read while enjoying the silence only interrupted a couple of times a day by the sound of the bells of the church of Nuestra Señora de Tejeda.
A flood of the river Ojos de Moya swept away the complex in 1516, fortunately saving the carving. For this reason, in 1517 the Community of Tejeda bought some land that would form the site of the present monastery, but in its current location. At the end of the century the convent was finished, but the work on the sanctuary continued for more than two hundred years.
The place has experienced great moments of splendour, starting to go downhill in the 19th century with the disentailment of Mendizábal. In 1927 a fire destroyed the image, except for its head. Marco Pérez was commissioned to make the new carving. There followed the difficult times of the Civil War, during which time the sanctuary was sacked, although the image was able to be saved again.
