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    Spanish architecture refers to architecture in any area of what is now Spain, and by Spanish architects worldwide. The … See more

    Prehistory

    In the Stone Age, the most common megalith found in the Iberian Peninsula was the dolmen. The plans of these funerary chambers used to be pseudocircles or trapezoids, formed by huge stones stuck on the ground… See more

    Roman

    The Roman conquest, started in 218 BC, promoted the almost complete romanization of the Iberian Peninsula. Roman culture was fully assimilated by the local population. Former military camps and Iberian, Phoenicia… See more

    Pre-Romanesque

    The term Pre-Romanesque refers to the Christian art after the Classical Age and before Romanesque art and architecture. It covers very heterogeneous artistic displays for they were developed in different centuries a… See more

    Al-Andalus

    The Muslim conquest of the former Visigothic Kingdom by the troops of Musa ibn Nusair and Tariq ibn Ziyad, and the overthrowing of the Umayyad dynasty in Damascus, eventually led to the creation of an independe… See more

    Romanesque

    Romanesque architecture appeared early in Spain, in the 10th and 11th centuries, in Lérida, Barcelona, Tarragona, Huesca, and in the Pyrenees, simultaneously with its appearance in northern Italy, what is called the … See more

    Gothic

    The Gothic style arrived in Spain in the 12th century. In this time, late Romanesque alternated with a few expressions of pure Gothic architecture like the Cathedral of Ávila. The High Gothic arrived in all its strength thr… See more

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