El Convento de San Esteban

Our first excursion with Jesús, our beloved guide here in Salamanca, was to the St. Stephen Monastery, shown here below. The entrance resembles an altar or retablo. It was actually quite interesting to learn the meaning of all the sculptures.

This is a picture from inside the monastery, where you see the courtyard and the cloisters around it. We were only able to go into part of the monastery, but the parts we saw were quite interesting.

 This is taken from the Convent next door. The nuns here have quite a nice view, but again, we were not allowed to see the entire convent, which is too bad, I was hoping to see a nun.