Royal monastery of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe

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.

Title Royal monastery of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
Artist(s) Unrecorded artist
Dates 14th–17th century
Places Europe / Southern Europe / Spain
Period, Culture, Style Medieval / Gothic / Renaissance / Spanish and Portuguese Renaissance
Artwork Type Architecture / Church
Material Stone, Wood, Gold
Technique

Cite this page as: UNESCO, "Royal monastery of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe," in Smarthistory, May 27, 2021, accessed April 2, 2025, https://smarthistory.org/royal-monastery-guadalupe-extremadura/.