Leaving San Luis, to our left we come across the most significant monument of artistic value in Montilla. Declared a National Historic Monument the Church and Convent of Santa Clara were ordered to be built by the Marquis Don Pedro as a Franciscan monastery. But one of his daughters, Maria Jesus, chose the monastic life and after being a novice in Andujar she returned to Montilla with eight nuns and three more novices (among whom was her sister Isabel), to constitute this old community on 12th July 1525.

It is the most important artistic group in Montilla, not only for its architecture, but also due to the richness that it maintains inside. It is a closed building to the exterior. There are only three doors, and one of them looks onto the entrance courtyard from where you can access the church, the revolving window and the parlour.

The altarpiece, of the purest baroque style, does not correspond with the foundations of the temple. Apparently, the old church was destroyed by fire. The one we see today belongs to the eighteenth century, and it was made by a maestro of the Hurtado school. In the centre we see the Immaculate Mary and to either side San Diego del Alcala, San Francisco Solano, Santa Clara and San Francisco de Asis.

The presbytery is separated by a carved archway of stone and filigree. At both sides of this there are two baroque altarpieces with San Jose And Santa Ana, by Gaspar Lorenzo de los Cobos.

To the right there is a pulpit with a long history. In it San Juan de Avila, San Francisco Solano, San Francisco de Borja and San Juan de dios preached.

The decoration of the church is completed with numerous paintings which refer to the life of Santa Clara.

In the low choir and the vestry there are paintings and statues that hold great artistic value from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The sculpture of Santa Clara by Pedro de Mena should be pointed out.

The cloister has some sections with two floors around the three courtyards. The main one has a Tuscan line with mudejar influence, adjacent to the to the temple, proceeds various rooms, some of them with magnificent coffered ceilings and holding many works of artistic interest.

Throughout the whole convent there are small oratories and chapels richly decorated most significant is that of Padre de Familias and Celda oratory of the Countess of Feria. Among the many works of art that the convent holds we should point out that of San Bautista Niño and San Juan Evangelist, both by Pedro Roldan.

Around thirty small polychromatic sculptures in wood or clay of baby Jesus deserve special attention.

In the refectory there is a huge canvas by Cornelio Schutt, dated 1769, with the theme of the Last Supper.