The church's main nave where Christopher Columbus prayed at the alter of the Chapel of the Virgin to Our Lady of Miracles on the night before his voyage. The 15th-century Franciscan Monasterio de Santa Mar?a de la R?bida in Palos de la Frontera is a Heritage of Mankind Site in the Huelva Provence of Southern Spain and the spot where Christopher Columbus planned and departed from the Old World to the New World in August 3 of 1492.