Convent of Sant Agustí Vell

The church was destroyed in 1716, for is active collaboration in the resistance against Phillip V, and the Augustinian order moved to the Church of Sant Agustí, inaugurated in 1750, leaving room for the Plaça de Sant Agustí Vell.

[2] In the context of the social and economic crisis that characterized the end of the Late Middle Ages, the sensation of vital provisionality of society led to a deep religious feeling and the need to develop solidarity structures where to find physical, professional and, finally, spiritual security.

In this context, with a demographic crisis as a consequence of the wars and the plague that devastated Catalonia, individualism had no reason to exist and the guilds and brotherhoods provided a degree of security in a changing environment and became powerful organizations that made up a political power in uniting a group of society in full evolution.

Having its own chapel inside a church and its decoration with an altarpiece, were the maximum material representation of its values.

Its ordinances were approved by King Martí l'Humà, in Segorbe, on October 18, 1401, at the request of the leading men of the tanners, and were confirmed in Barcelona on June 23, 1405.