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The first religious order that was established in Sarria, after the Poor Clares, was the Friars Minor Capuchin. Came from Naples and built in Sarria the first convent of the Order in Spain, on land donated by the owner Joan Terre, located on Paseo de Santa Eulalia. Subsequent to the enactment of the Act desamortizació of religious property in 1835, the monastery was destroyed and reduced to a pile of ashes. The property was owned by the state and was eventually sold to the Italian citizen Enrico Misley. The Friars Minor did not return Desert anymore. In 1887, the lands were ceded the estate Can Ponsic to build the new monastery.
The convent burned during the Civil War, was restored after the war by the nineteenth-century architect Pere Benavent. Contains Museum Andean-Amazon with materials collected since the early twentieth century by Capuchin monks in the vast area of the Amazon. On display are some of the most significant ethnography, zoology and botany andinoamazònica as well as a collection of pre-Columbian ceramics and other witnesses ethnographic other cultures.

Information from the publication "Itineraries: Sarria: Old" published by the district of Sarria-Sant Gervasi in 2007 by the author M. Palau-Ribes.

Touching the wall of the convent are cedar (Cedrus) Capuchin, which has, in July 2013, a trunk circumference of 1.30 m, 3.06 m.
In the garden you can find a Capuchin Japanese Persimmon (Diospyros kaki), the trunk perimeter of 1.30 m is one meter. The place is private, so you can not access without permission.

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