The Monastery of San Pedro el Real was founded by King Ferdinand III the Saint after the conquest of the city. Belonging to the Franciscan order, it was a large building of which, in addition to its church, part of the cloister and the compass, converted into public squares, still survive today, although its current appearance corresponds to the reforms carried out during the 18th century, which caused it to lose its original medieval character.
From the Baroque cloister of the former convent, two two-storey bays survive, both with porticoed galleries of semicircular arches supported on slender columns with smooth shafts and Tuscan capitals, in a two-to-one arrangement, i.e. each arch on the ground floor has two corresponding arches on the second floor. These galleries were recovered by the architect Félix Hernández at the end of the last century and again adapted for public use at the beginning of this century.
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