The Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe, located in the town of the same name in the province of Cáceres, Spain. Declared a National Monument in 1879 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993.
We find the Monastery in the Plaza de Santa María in Puebla de Guadalupe, a Town of 1862 (inhabitants).
We visited the town and the Monastery, staying at the Hospedería in April 2018, leaving below the video of the YouTube Channel with the visit to this Jewel:
Below are links to the following videos:
Tradition has it that Alfonso XI entrusted himself to the Virgin of Guadalupe before the Battle of Salado, and after the victory over the Muslims he had no doubt that it was thanks to the intercession of the Virgin, so from 1340 the Sanctuary began. It was already from 1389, when thanks to a Royal Provision of John I of Castile became Monastery, occupied by the Jerónima Order. The current Monastery is a mixture of Gothic, Mudejar, Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical styles.
In the Monastery is guarded the image of Santa María de Guadalupe, Patron of Extremadura and Queen of Hispanidad or of the Spains being after Santiago de Compostela, the most important place of Pilgrimage of Spain.
It should be noted that the Catholic Monarchs received Columbus here in 1486 and 1489, and after the Take of Granada they came to rest in 1492. Christopher Columbus himself returned in 1493 to thank Our Lady as promised after the Discovery of America and it was here at the Monastery that the first indigenous people who were transferred to Europe on July 29, 1496 were baptized. Indicate that King Henry IV of Castile, the brother of Isabella the Catholic, and the mother of the Catholic, Queen Mary of Aragon are buried here.
And then a satellite view and some more photo of this wonder.
The plan with the location of Guadalupe to know how to get there to visit this wonder.
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