Burning of convents in Spain
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The following is a list of events in which convents in Spain were burned.
- Burning of convents during the French invasion as planned or spontaneous actions of the French army during the Peninsular War (1807-1814)[1]
- Burning of convents in Spain (1835), during the First Carlist War and subsequent ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal.
- Burning of convents in Spain (1902)[2]
- Burning of convents in Spain (1909), during the Tragic Week in Catalonia[2]
- Burning of convents in Spain (1931), a month after the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic[3]
- Burning of convents during the anticlerical violence of the Revolution of 1934
- Burning of convents in Spain (1936) in the months preceding the Spanish Civil War
Despite these events, Spain still holds a large amount of architectural heritage, being the country with the third most UNESCO World Heritage Sites.
References
[edit]- ↑ Négri, Vincent (2014-03-07). Le patrimoine culturel, cible des conflits armés: De la guerre civil espagnole aux guerres du 21è siècle (in French). Primento. ISBN 978-2-8027-3942-5.
- 1 2 Sanabria, Enrique A. (2009), "Spanish Anticlericalism's Long Decade, 1898–1910", in Sanabria, Enrique A. (ed.), Republicanism and Anticlerical Nationalism in Spain, New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 151–174, doi:10.1057/9780230620087_7, ISBN 978-0-230-62008-7, retrieved 2025-10-20
- ↑ Alba, Víctor (1983-01-01). The Communist Party in Spain. Transaction Publishers. ISBN 978-1-4128-1999-2.