Real monastery of Our Lady of Guadaloupe

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Real monastery of Our Lady of Guadaloupe

Fixed income monastery in the location of Guadaloupe, in the province of Cáceres. Declared by the UNESCO Patrimonio of the humanity in 1993. Mixture of Gothic, Mudejar, Renaissance related, baroque and neoclassic styles, of the XIII centuries to the XVIII.Su records the history of it rises to 1389 when the John I king awards a privilege for which gives at the orders of the Hieronymite the church of the Our Lady sanctuary of Guadaloupe, place having been found an image of the virgin to ends of the XIII century or principles of the XIV for a peasant of Giles Cordero name. The image had being centuries back near the body of saint Luke, exposed in blunt and in Seville, until in 714, in the middle of |musulmana| invasion, the image was hidden near the Guadaloupe river, that wants say-so " laugh hiding ", where remained until your find by Giles Cordero.The construction of the monastery of the Hieronymite will be extended from the XIV century to the XVIII through successive enlargements, which you has endowed with an irregular sketch with aspect of strength. In your construction it used to him preferably the rubblework and the brick. stand out your Mudejar university council or of the miracles, built between 1389 and 1405 , about which put the bedrooms and the refectory. It has rectangular form with pointed or tumid horseshoe arches of squares pillars with edges in chamfer.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Monasterio_de_Nuestra_Se%C3 %B1ora_de_Guadalupe

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