Eternal resting place of Christopher Columbus.

Eternal resting place of Christopher Columbus.

For years, the debate revolved around the true location of the remains of marine,
since there were two different tombs, one in the Cathedral of Sevilla and another in the
city of Santo Domingo,capital of the Dominican Republic. But in 2006, thanks to DNA testing,
it was verified and the remains venerated in the Cathedral of Seville were those of Christopher
Columbus. The studies, led by José Antonio Lorente, director of the Laboratory of Genetic
Identification, began in 2003 with the exhumation of the remains of the discoverer and his
son Don Hernando, masters in Seville temple. It was also necessary recover the remains of
brother, Columbus Diego,buried in the Cartuja de Sevilla.

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Catholic Kings,burial, RIP

On September 13, 1504, Isabel de Castilla (1451- 1505) and Ferdinand
of Aragon (1452- 1516),the Catholic Monarchs Signed a decree that could have
been considered his will, because in the left evidence of their desire to be buried in the city of
Granada.

First we sent in the Cathedral of the city of Granada honest chapel in which they have, when the will
of Lord our case, our bodies buried done. This chapel has been calling Kings under the invocation of
San Juan Bautista and San Juan Evangelista. And therefore, we want our bones are there for ever, they
must also be buried the lady of the Serenissima shower so that, together, Loen and bless his holy name.

In 1505 work began construction of the royal chapel, Gothic,which ended in 1517. In 1526
began to elected Granada Cathedral,in which, besides the Catholic Kings,the remains of his
daughter Juana la loca the husband, Philip the handsome,and the infante Don Manuel,grandson
of Ferdinand and Isabella, who was during his 2 years of life, the heir to Spanish throne.