Romain Chauvet

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Customers buy marmalades and cakes made by cloistered nuns, at a market at the Reales Alcazares in Seville, Spain, on Dec. 5, 2023. Women's religious communities in Spain are making and selling items, and renting rooms in their monasteries, to generate income. (AP/Laura Leon)

Mar 16, 2026

In order to maintain aging monasteries, Spanish nuns are becoming entrepreneurs

Sisters have had to think of new ways to generate income in the face of skyrocketing maintenance costs for their historic buildings, coupled with a decline in people choosing religious vocations.