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
• 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.