Convento de Santa Bárbara, Catholic convent in Ciudad Vieja, A Coruña, Spain.

The Convento de Santa Bárbara is a cloistered convent on the Plaza de Santa Bárbara in the Ciudad Vieja of A Coruña. Above its door sits a relief placed there in 1613, perhaps from a 14th-century Gothic baldachin or sarcophagus: the Trinity, the weighing of souls by Saint Michael, a dragon. Inside are an access courtyard, a square watchtower with barred windows, and a wall closing the nuns' dormitory square, designed by Fernando de Casas Novoa and begun in 1738, whose slow construction explains the 1786 date on the facade.

First documented in 1444 as a chapel by the city wall, the convent's foundation was approved by Pope Alexander VI in 1491. From the 16th century it grew on donations, and from mid-century the Real Audiencia de Galicia attended Holy Thursday and Good Friday offices in its church. In 1683 it sheltered the Capuchin nuns founding the Convento das Marabillas. The 18th-century "pavillón inglés" was built with rising rents; the community was expelled in 1809, 1823 and definitively in 1846 under the Desamortización de Mendizábal, and joined the Order of Saint Clare in 1912.

The convent belongs to the Order of Saint Clare since 1912 and housed 18 Poor Clares in 2021. From the mid-16th century, members of the Royal Audience of Galicia attended Holy Thursday and Good Friday services in its church. As in other Galician Clarist convents, locals donate eggs to the community to ask for good weather on their wedding days.

This is a cloistered convent of Poor Clares: the nuns live in seclusion and visitors cannot enter the monastery or meet the community. The entrance relief, the square tower with barred windows and the 1786 façade can be seen from the Plaza de Santa Bárbara in the Cidade Vella. The surroundings were declared a heritage site in 1971.

The convent joined the Order of Saint Clare in 1912 and had 18 Poor Clares in 2021. As in other Galician Clarist convents, local people donate eggs to the community to ask for good weather on their wedding days.