The Tribunal Supremo dates from the mid 18th Century when it was built as a convent for the Las Salesas Reales nuns on the orders of Barbara Braganza, the wife of Fernando V1. The nuns had to leave the convent in 1897 when it was taken by the government. It was damaged by fire twice in the early 20th Century. After restoration in the 1990s it became Spain`s supreme court. In the square are statues of Fernando V1 and Barbara de Braganza.
