Where is christopher columbus buried

However, Bautista said he would not allow the remains to be tested. A little history Columbus died and was buried in Valladolid on May 20, He had asked to be buried in the Americas, but no church of sufficient stature existed there.

Three years later, his remains were moved to a monastery on La Cartuja, a river island next to Seville. In , Maria de Rojas y Toledo, widow of one of Columbus' sons, Diego, sent the bones of her husband and his father to the cathedral in Santo Domingo for burial. There they lay until , when Spain ceded Hispaniola to France and decided Columbus' remains should not fall into the hands of foreigners. A set of remains that the Spaniards believed were Columbus' was first shipped to Havana, Cuba, and then back to Seville when the Spanish-American War broke out in In , however, workers digging in the Santo Domingo cathedral unearthed a leaden box containing bones and bearing the inscription, "Illustrious and distinguished male, don Cristobal Colon.

The Dominicans say that these were the genuine remains and that the Spaniards took the wrong body back in Another mystery awaits Lorente is the director of the Laboratory of Genetic Identification at the University of Granada. Columbus died on May 20, , and was buried in the Spanish city of Valladolid, though he had asked to be buried in the Americas. Every week we highlight the most timely exchange-traded fund news, from new launches to inflows and performance.

Home General International news Associated Press. Associated Press We know where Christopher Columbus is buried but not yet where he was born — till, likely, this October Published: May 24, at p.

ET By Associated Press. Yet for many years after his death, his bones kept traveling. It led to a terrible mix-up with another set of bones and to an age-old dispute across the ocean conquered by the great navigator.

Although Columbus clearly stated that he wanted to be buried in the New World, at the time of his death, it was determined that there was no church of sufficient stature in the Americas to serve as his tomb. He was buried in a Valladolid monastery and remained there for three years, when he was moved to another monastery in Seville.

Historians on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean agree that the remains stayed there for more than two centuries — from to Mark Nayler. Give us feedback. Read Next View. Home2 Suites by Hilton Columbus Downtown. Residence Inn by Marriott Columbus Airport.