Basilica de Santa Teresa

Visiting Alba de Tormes.

In the small town of Alba de Tormes, you have the basilica who on its own is a huge structure in neo-Gothic style, which apparently has not yet been finished! It was conceived by Enrique María Repullé...

As yet unfinished

This is unfinished and may never be but it’s worth visiting the outside and the square and lingering prayerfully over the statue of Teresa . Then moving on to the rest of the town

Well worth a visit.

The convent church has an amazing museum of Spanish Catholicism and the sarcophagus of Teresa of Avila, with her heart and left arm in visible reliquaries. Very peaceful atmosphere.

Visita en Alba de Tormes

Basílica ubicada a la orilla del río Tormes, concretamente en Alba de Tormes. De estilo neogotico. Se construyó para albergar los restos de Santa Teresa de Jesús.

Proyecto inconcluso

Al pasar delante de esta basílica uno no puede dejar de quedarse maravillado del tremendo proyecto que habían comenzado en el siglo XVI el pueblo de Tormes De Alba. Esta basílica iba a tener unas dime...