• Royal Monastery of Santa MarĂ­a de Guadalupe

  Royal Monastery of Santa MarĂ­a de Guadalupe

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  <img src=’http://whc.unesco.org/uploads/sites/site_665.jpg‘ target=’blank‘ align=’left‘ style=’padding:5px‘>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&apos; arrival in the Americas. Its famous statue of the Virgin became a powerful symbol of the Christianization of much of the New World.

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