Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe World Heritage Site

Official name

Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe | UNESCO

Country

Spain | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

Province of Cáceres, Autonomous Community of Extremadura
39.4528° Lat, -5.3275° Lon | Map

Code

665

Time Zone

Europe/Madrid (CEST, +0200)

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Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1993. 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.