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Spain Huelva, La Rabida Monastery (in full, Monasterio de Santa Mar?a de la R?bida) is a Franciscan monastery in the southern Spanish town of Palos de la Frontera, in the province of Huelva and the autonomous region of Andalucia. The monastery is located 13 km (8 mi) south of the city of Huelva, where the Tinto and Odiel rivers meet. The Monastery of La R?bida has been Franciscan property since the thirteenth century. It was founded as a monastery in 1261; the evidence is a papal bull issued by Pope Benedict XIII in that year, allowing Friar Juan Rodr?guez and his companions to establish a monastic 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 (r?bida or r?pita, meaning watchtower in Arabic) to the present monastery. The Franciscans have held great influence in the region ever Columbus stayed at the monastery two years before his famous first voyage, after learning that King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella had rejected his request for outfitting an expedition in search of the Indies. With the intervention of the prior of La R?bida and the confessor to Isabella, Francisco Jim?nez de Cisneros, he was able to have his proposal heard. The monastery was declared a Spanish National Monument in 1856.
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