French: Monastère royal de Santa María de Guadalupe
The Royal Monastery of Santa María de Guadalupe is a World Heritage site in Spain defined by the UNESCO in 1993 and definitely a recommended cultural sightseeing location.
It is on position 198 (756, 347) in our monthly survey..

"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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