Designated as a historical monument in 2013.
Following conflicts linked to the management of the port and to witchcraft trials in 1609, and faced with the presence of the Moriscos (Muslims who had converted to Catholicism) and the Jews expelled from Spain, Recollect friars were called in 1611 to pacify the relationships between the inhabitants. In the middle of the port, on an uninhabited island near the bridge linking the two towns, the friars from a reformed order of the Franciscans had a convent built from 1613. Their strict observance of the Franciscan rule, including its poverty vows, lead to the large convent being built very simply. However, the building has some more lavish elements such as two halls decorated with frescos and a baroque altarpiece (which was later moved to the Ciboure church during the French Revolution) as well as the ingenious lined well, which was paid for by the Chief Minister of France Mazarin following the wedding of Louis XIV. In 1791, during the French Revolution, the Recollect friars were expelled from the convent and the building was used as barracks, a prison and a fodder shop before it became the property of the French state in the 19th century. From 1821, the cloister was home to the local customs office and, from 1900, the chapel was used as a salting factory. After the departure of the local customs office in 2007, there was a restoration plan to convert the Récollets Convent into a Centre for the Interpretation of Architecture and Heritage.