Ágreda

Ágreda stands near the meeting of Castile, Aragon and Navarre, a border town whose streets preserve the marks of its Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities. In the seventeenth century its convent became the home of María de Jesús de Ágreda, a Franciscan abbess and religious writer. From 1643 she corresponded with Philip IV, offering spiritual counsel to the king in hundreds of letters. Her influence carried the name of this small town into the affairs of the Spanish monarchy.