Monastery · Huelva
Monasterio de Santa María de la Rábida
Today: Monasterio de La Rábida, Palos de la Frontera
- Place
- Huelva
- Kind
- Monastery
- Built
- 17th to 18th century
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Open to visit
The Franciscan friary where Columbus found refuge and care while preparing his project, with rooms built in the early 15th century and a Mudéjar cloister of the 15th. In the 17th century a battlemented upper floor was added to the cloister as a defence against pirates and the chapter room was rebuilt; the friary was altered most after the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. A permanent exhibition of models of the three caravels is on that upper floor.
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