Convento de San Bernardo, Historical convent in central district, Salta, Argentina.

Convento de San Bernardo is a long white stucco complex in central Salta, with a terracotta tiled roof. Its chapel section has a curved gable topped by a small cross, a dark rectangular window and an arched entrance door; further along, a large gable with carved scrollwork and a circular emblem frames a recessed double door. The cloister entrance holds a door carved in algarrobo wood by native hands in 1762, with Salomonic columns and a double-arched lintel bearing the inscription "Don Pedro Balentín de la Cámara, año 1762".

The site began as the hermitage of San Bernardo, patron of Salta, and in 1586 a hospital dedicated to San Andrés was built alongside it. Destroyed by the 1692 earthquake, the hospital reopened in 1726 and again in 1805 under the Bethlehemite fathers. In 1846 priest Isidoro Fernández brought Discalced Carmelite nuns from Chile, founding the Nuevo Carmelo de San Bernardo; the hermitage and hospital then became the present convent. It was declared a National Historical Monument on 14 July 1941.

The convent's name comes from San Bernardo, patron saint of Salta in its early years. The Discalced Carmelite nuns arrived in 1846 from Chile at the request of priest Isidoro Fernández, who founded the beaterio "Nuevo Carmelo de San Bernardo". The carved algarrobo wood door at the entrance, made by indigenous hands in 1762, bears the inscription "Don Pedro Balentín de la Cámara, año 1762".

The convent stands east of Salta's central area, a short walk from the Plaza 9 de Julio. The entrance is through the new portada opened when the Carmelite nuns took over, not the old hospital door beside the chapel. The cloister itself is closed to visitors; the 1762 algarrobo door can be seen from the entrance side.

The convent's entrance door was carved by hand from algarrobo wood by indigenous craftsmen in 1762, bearing the inscription "Don Pedro Balentín de la Cámara, año 1762". It came from the de la Cámara family and was moved here in 1847, when the hospital door was walled up and a new portada opened.