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Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe

Spain
Date of Inscription: 1993
Criteria: (iv)(vi)
Province of Cáceres, Autonomous Community of Extremadura
N39 27 10.3 W5 19 39.0
Ref: 665

Brief Description

The monastery is an outstanding repository of four centuries of Spanish religious architecture. It symbolizes two significant events in world history that occurred in 1492: the Reconquest of the Iberian peninsula by the Catholic Kings and Christopher Columbus' arrival in the Americas. Its famous statue of the Virgin became a powerful symbol of the Christianization of much of the New World.