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Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe
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Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe

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Rank: 1001 UNESCO
Wonder Type: Cultural
Country: Spain
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. [More Details]
This article uses material from UNESCO World Heritage List article "Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 IGO License.