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Name:Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe
Area:Southern Europe
Country:Spain
Registered Year:1993
Type:Cultural Heritage
Criteria:(ii)(iv)
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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.
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