Burning of convents in Spain

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

1. 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.
2. Sanabria, Enrique A. (2009), Sanabria, Enrique A. (ed.), "Spanish Anticlericalism's Long Decade, 1898–1910", 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
3. Alba, VÃ-ctor (1983-01-01). The Communist Party in Spain. Transaction Publishers. ISBN   978-1-4128-1999-2.

See also

• 1834 massacre of friars in Madrid
• Spanish confiscation
• Ensanche
• List of missing landmarks in Spain
• Church arson