 In the year 1399 Martin of Aragon yielded all the royal possessions of Valldemossa to the Carthusian monks.These founded the Charterhouse and inhabited it until 1835, when it happened to private hands by the Ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal.The church, a neoclassical building decorated by great artists and craftsmen of the time, began to be built in 1751 on the primitive church erected in 1446.