The Convent of Santo Domingo de Guzmán in the municipality of Ocaña (Toledo), is a Renaissance construction from the mid-16th century. Mendizábal’s Decree of Confiscation, which abolished all the convents on the Peninsula, admitted some exceptions, among which was the Missionary College for Asia, that of the Dominicans of Ocaña. On a piece of land belonging to Doña Leonor de Tobar and a part of the plot ceded by Queen Juana I of Castilla (mother of Emperor Carlos V) adjacent to the old wall -according to the Royal Decree of December 24, 1530-, construction began. to build this convent (in the beginning called del Rosario), finishing the works in the year 1542. The first stone was laid by Prince Felipe, who lived in Ocaña at that time and where he would spend a large part of his childhood. Alonso de Covarrubias made the cloister of the convent. It was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest on December 26, 2000, through a decree published on January 5, 2001 in the Official Gazette of Castilla-La Mancha. Church It is a rectangular plan with th…