Guadalupe, Cáceres

Guadalupe (2004 inhabitants, the source location of the same name Flüssleins ) is a city in Spain with a monastery and a famous pilgrimage church. It is located in west -west- south of Madrid between hills in the region of Extremadura, Cáceres province, 200 km ( straight line ).

Guadalupe is one of the most important pilgrimage destinations in Spain. In the Real Monasterio de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe monastery ( included in the list of World Cultural Heritage by UNESCO in 1993 ) is a miraculous image of the Madonna, the Virgin, the Queen of Guadalupe, Queen of Spaniertums around the world. Your named in honor of Columbus, a Guadalupe Island. Rivers, mountains, cities in the New World bear the name of this village. Did the explorer and conqueror of their trips back, they made ​​pilgrimages to Guadalupe, thanked the Madonna and donated by their acquired treasures. Therefore, the great wealth of the monastery at that time, so that it read: " Dear monk in Guadalupe as a prince or a duke. "

Main source of income is tourism today. But the area is still agrarian in nature (wine, olives, corn, garden vegetables, sheep and pig ).

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• Television series Spain - language, country and people; Shipping: La Mancha, Toledo, Guadalupe ( Book: Reinirkens / Erne ), Südwestfunk Baden-Baden/Langenscheidt, 1991
• It: Guadalupe