What is now known as the Gilitos Social and Cultural Centre was originally a convent built on a high area overlooking the plain of the terraces of the Henares River. At the beginning of the 1980s, the ex-convent was in a state of abandonment, at which point it became municipal property and was included in the Catalogue of Protected Assets. During the 1990s, the former convent was renovated by adding a new building to the east, connected by a glass walkway to the first, to develop a functional programme as a cultural centre with a variety of activities: theatre and music groups, an exhibition hall, a reading room and training workshops in ceramics, bookbinding and the restoration of old paintings and sculptures. The complex has a library and different training spaces for classrooms, rehearsals and exhibitions. The convent building dates from 1625, has two floors and surrounds the porticoed cloister. The nave church has a hall plan covered by a barrel vault.