Welcome!
This is the house where Santa Joaquina de Vedruna lived.
A house where she lived as a mother, with sons and daughters, as a widowed woman, and where, in 1826, she founded the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity. Here she sprouted a seed that today continues to bear fruit and encourages us to continue sowing it with hope throughout the world.
This is not a museum, but a real house: a house with memory, with walls that have listened and floors that have felt the steps of a full life.
Visiting the house means entering the spaces that evoke his society, his life and his work.
Rehabilitation
On the occasion of the Bicentennial of the Congregation (1826-2026), a process of restoration and rehabilitation has been carried out, with the objective of converting the Casa Manso into a point of encounter and knowledge of the person of Joaquina and her legacy. of Joaquina and her legacy from a modern perspective. from a modern perspective.
The recovery of the Casa Manso has made it possible to restore three floors and three fundamental spaces that give meaning to the founder’s life story.
Tour
To visit Casa Manso is to embark on a journey through the essence of the Vedruna charism. The tour invites visitors to be pilgrims in a story of courage and love.
As with memories, you can enter and leave the rooms freely, move forward, backward, let yourself be guided by your intuition. The tour is neither chronological nor conventional, but follows an immersive itinerary, articulated in three parts:
Soil | Seed | Fruit
