page_title: La Rábida Friary
section_title: The buildings
hierarchical_section_title: La Rábida Friary / The buildings
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Palos de la Frontera (Huelva, Spanje): het klooster van Santa María de la Rábida - interieur van de kerkEnglish: Palos de la Frontera (Huelva, Spain): monastery of Santa María de la Rábida - interior of the churchFrançais&#160;: Palos de la Frontera (Huelva, Espagne)&#160;: le monastère de Santa María de la Rábida - intérieur de l'égliseEspañol: Palos de la Frontera (Huelva, España): monasterio de Santa María de la Rábida - iglesia
context_page_description: The Friary of La Rábida is a Franciscan friary in the southern Spanish town of Palos de la Frontera, in the province of Huelva and the autonomous region of Andalucia. The friary is located 13 km south of the city of Huelva, where the Tinto and Odiel rivers meet.
  The Friary of La Rábida has been Franciscan property since the thirteenth century. It was founded in 1261; the evidence is a papal bull issued by Pope Benedict XIII in that year, allowing Friar Juan Rodríguez and his companions to establish a community on the coast of Andalucia. The first Christian building on the site was constructed over a small pre-existing Almohad building that lends its name
  to the present monastery. The Franciscans have held great influence in the region ever since.
  The buildings standing on the site today were erected in stages in the late fourteenth century and the early fifteenth century. The friary, and the church associated with it, display elements of Gothic and Moorish revival architecture; their walls are decorated with frescos by the twentieth-century Spanish artist, Daniel Vázquez Diaz.
caption: The church
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