When Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Teresa of Jesus, reached Beas de Segura and founded one of her “dovecots of the Virgin” with which she would reform the Carmelite order, this town of Jaén already had a community of nuns: the Poor Clares whose convent, unlike Teresa’s, has barely withstood the brunt of time. Abandoned in the 19th century and eaten away by neighbors, the only part left of it was a one-nave church which the municipal council has now resuscitated as a cultural center, in a painstaking reconstruction of volumes that includes adjoining facilities...[+][+]