Burning of convents in Spain
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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
- Burning of convents in Spain (1835), during the First Carlist War and subsequent ecclesiastical confiscations of Mendizábal.
- Burning of convents in Spain (1902)
- Burning of convents in Spain (1909), during the Tragic Week in Catalonia
- Burning of convents in Spain (1931), a month after the establishment of the Second Spanish Republic
- 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.