Burning of convents in Spain: Difference between revisions

Convents burning may refer to:

• Convents burning during the Napoleonic French invasion (1808-1814), which in this case was not due to popular rebellions (the clergy was very active part of the side called patriot), but to planned or spontaneous actions of the French army (see War of Spanish Independence);
  • It was also highlighted the Convents demolition in Madrid planned for urban, military and social reasons during the reign of Joseph Bonaparte (referred by this to as el Rey Plazuela) advised by the architect Silvestre Pérez y Martínez.
• Convents burning in Spain (1835), in the context of the First Carlist War and the subsequent Ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal
  • preceded by the Slaughter of friars in Madrid of 1834 (July 17, during a epidemic of cholera, from which rumors ran that it was due to the poisoning of the fountains)
• Convents burning in Spain (1902)
• Convents burning in Spain (1909), during the Tragic Week in Catalonia (July 26 to August 2, 1909).
• Convents burning in Spain (1931), a month after the Second Spanish Republic establishment
• Convents burning in the anticlerical violence in the Asturias Revolution during the revolution of 1934, which especially affected Asturias
• Convents burning in Spain (1936), in the previous months of the Spanish Civil War
• Religious persecution during the Spanish Civil War

Despite these events, Spain conserves an enormous amount of architectural heritage, being also the third country with more World Heritage Sites declared by UNESCO.