From this May onwards, the Sant Jeroni de Cotalba Monastery, standing in the heart of La Safor. Sant district, can be visited every other Thursday and Saturday. The monastery is one of the finest examples of monastic architecture still conserved in the Region of Valencia.

This program of visits has been made possible by an agreement between the Valencia Regional Government and the building’s owners, the Trénor family. Coinciding with its opening to the public, restoration work has been carried out on the area behind the church’s retable and Father Borrás’ painting gallery, and restoring the monastery’s visitable parts.

Construction work on the monastery began in the 14th century and continued up to the 16th century, though it was during the 17th and 18th centuries when it took on its present-day layout. Its most representative feature is its main facade, overlooked by the main tower and priory tower.

The cloister is the backbone of the enclosure and is arranged in four galleries on two floors. On the lower cloister, the arches and vaults are made in two – coloured Mudejar style. The church stands on a rectangular ground plan with one aisle and chapels between buttresses. The most significant areas on the upper floor are the presbytery and the choir.

The chapter house is originally from the fourteenth century. It has a home run and vault. Since the nineteenth century is the chapel of the Virgin of Health. Inside the hall we found a medieval Gothic sarcophagus where are the remains of the infants of Aragon, Don Juan and Donna White, sons of the founder of the monastery. Retains traces of polychromy.

La Virgen de la Salud (Mare de Deu de la Salut) is patron of the nearby village of Rótova in this room and we can find a picture of it, in a Gothic altarpiece.

The staircase Flamboyant Gothic (XV-XVI century) with a railing and manufactures fine tracery of plaster. Is decorated with plant motifs. According to tradition from the top of this ladder San Vicente Ferrer preached to convert Muslims in the region.

Since the Chapter House and reached through a door:

The mill room is occupied now by some of the jars that were used to store oil. In one of its walls is kept at a temple in grisaille fray Nicolás Borrás representing the Last Supper.

The hall is divided into three spaces, making nursing one another serving of oratory and the third was refectorium functions. Since the eighteenth century acted as mill.

The original kitchen of the fourteenth century, is a large hall with a barrel vault and a large fireplace where the oven.

The building block of a single ship with original vault. It can even find the elements of the block, as are the manger, and the trough. Highlights a ceramic panel with a representation of San Antonio and agricultural tools.

The romantic garden called, was installed by the family Trenor following the style of Nicolas Forestier of the early twentieth century. In the highlights of the closing of the aqueduct 5 kilometers starting at the source of Batlamala which supplied water to monasteriio.

Among the furniture belonging to the monastery and were transferred to other locations are: Custody became the Collegiate Gandia, the body of the Pious Schools Gandia, the bell went to large population and the image Xeresa of Our Lady of Health was carried Rótova.