Iberian religious architecture

[Comte Arnau]

Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monasterio_de_San_Juan_de_los_Reyes,_Toledo)
Location: Toledo (Castile)
Style: Isabelline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelline_Gothic) (Castilian Gothic)

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4524302955_d7f6169d6d_o.jpg


Monastery of the Hieronymites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jer%C3%B3nimos_Monastery)
Location: Lisbon (Portugal)
Style: Manueline (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manueline) (Portuguese Late Gothic)

http://artistoria.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/mosteirodos-jeronimos1.jpg


Church of Santa Maria del Mar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_del_Mar,_Barcelona)
Location: Barcelona (Catalonia)
Style: Catalan Gothic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Gothic)

http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/attachments/calles-y-plazas-20-de-agosto-al-20-de-septiembre-2010/90858d1284303540-plaza-de-santa-maria-del-mar-barcelona-catedral-del-mar-pano-.jpg


Abbey of Saint Peter in Siresa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_San_Pedro_de_Siresa)
Location: Siresa (Aragon)
Style: Cluniac-like Romanesque (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesque_architecture)

http://www.evadium.com/images/fichas/siresa_sanpedro-big.jpg?1265750070

[Catrau]

Cathedral of Évora. This Gothic Cathedral is a most relevant Portuguese cathedrals, deas was built between the 13th and 14th centuries.
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Alentejo/299883_2360357886878_1188234743_2838994_1317753234 _n.jpg



Coimbra. St. James Church in Romanesque style.
Its construction is the end of the XI century.

http://pt.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Igreja_de_Santiago_(Coimbra​)
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Coimbra/310839_2308278904936_1188234743_2786706_6259621_n. jpg



Coimbra. Facade of the Old Cathedral. A facade with all original features typical of the Romanesque style. For the same time be a temple of worship and a defense structure, has the characteristics of the Romanesque facade windows in the form of loophole and is surmounted by battlements like the walls of a castle. The main door has 4 archivolts with columns and arches decorated with geometric and plant motifs. It also has two lateral buttresses and the entrance is placed in a large counter that ensures the stability of the building built on the slope.
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Coimbra/312821_2308274584828_1188234743_2786695_1821867_n. jpg



Church of Vila Nova de Foz Coa.
Built by King Manuel I in a mixture of styles but with harmonious result. The structure is in late Gothic portico and several archivolts in Manueline spiers have two sides pinacles and an image of "Mercy" flanked by arms of D. Manuel.
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Trsos%20Montes%20e%20Alto%20Douro/315063_2401154026756_1188234743_2873032_147033922_ n.jpg



Church of Torre de Moncorvo.
Its construction took a century and was started in 1510. Apart from the Renaissance façade, has about five altarpieces inside and a great eighteenth-century Flemish triptych from Antwerp.
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Trsos%20Montes%20e%20Alto%20Douro/301266_2405399332886_1188234743_2875966_708036563_ n.jpg



Church of Vila Flor built in the early eighteenth century, is essentially Baroque.
http://www.cm-vilaflor.pt/
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Trsos%20Montes%20e%20Alto%20Douro/296354_2411443883996_1188234743_2880662_1655884766 _n.jpg



Church of Chaves.
It is one of the oldest monuments of the city, the nearby City Hall and the Church of Mercy. It is built where there was first a Roman temple and later the church of the bishop Idácio. Has been rebuilt just before the twelfth century on the ruins of previous temples. The interior consists of three naves, separated by rugged granite cylindrical columns. The today's facade is the result of deep restoration, carried out in 1968. It reveals different eras and styles, from Romanesque to Renaissance.
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Trsos%20Montes%20e%20Alto%20Douro/305829_2424956901813_1188234743_2892185_1182443183 _n.jpg
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Trsos%20Montes%20e%20Alto%20Douro/302398_2424956701808_1188234743_2892184_519140233_ n.jpg



The Monastery of St. Mary of Junias in Pitões das Junias date from the ninth century, therefore a pre-Romanesque architectural phase. It was abandoned in the nineteenth century 1000 years after its foundation, after a fire.
The main entrance to the monastery of Pitões das Junias is a jewel of Romanesque geometric and cordiform motifs and has seventeenth century belfry.
The monastery is classified as a National Monument.
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Trsos%20Montes%20e%20Alto%20Douro/301044_2436381067410_1188234743_2900786_2088799013 _n.jpg
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Trsos%20Montes%20e%20Alto%20Douro/305865_2436381387418_1188234743_2900787_1426561084 _n.jpg



Romanesque Church Bravães. One of my favorites from a Romanesque pure and simple minimalist straight lines.
http://​www.turismoreligioso.org/​monumentos_det.asp?recursoI​D=McHaxuf8CqXoSfuCUgW v2fEJ​gHCbaZspaWMmhbkOYkx9aacYOu
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Minho/296951_2492826478510_1188234743_2945075_164775243_ n.jpg



Manueline portal of the Church of St John Baptist in Tomar.
http://i1074.photobucket.com/albums/w420/1Catrau/Facebook/Tomar/23438_1399298260988_1188234743_1179501_4662127_n.j pg

[2Cool]

All in mainland Portugal:

Alcobaça Monastery (UNESCO heritage site)
http://i.imgur.com/kHnX5.jpg

Saint Michael's Monastery
http://i.imgur.com/llQ7y.jpg

Igreja da Memória
http://i.imgur.com/0k1x2.jpg

Igreja do Hospital
http://i.imgur.com/wEZZS.jpg

Santuário do Sameiro
http://i.imgur.com/grrTm.jpg

Igreja Matriz de Almodôvar
http://i.imgur.com/hehW1.jpg

Santuário do Sr. do Socorro
http://i.imgur.com/sN9mi.jpg

Igreja Matriz da Golegã (one of first Manueline churches in Portugal I believe)
http://i.imgur.com/WaP8d.jpg

Igreja de São Francisco (Porto)
http://i.imgur.com/kkhxU.jpg

Church in Silves
http://i.imgur.com/mcQJW.jpg

Romaria de Nossa Senhora d'Aires
http://i.imgur.com/aODIE.jpg

Mosteiro de Salzedas
http://i.imgur.com/0i5uI.jpg

Igreja de Cortegaça
http://i.imgur.com/9wBvz.jpg

[Damião de Góis]

http://www.ojodigital.com/foro/attachments/calles-y-plazas-20-de-agosto-al-20-de-septiembre-2010/90858d1284303540-plaza-de-santa-maria-del-mar-barcelona-catedral-del-mar-pano-.jpg


I have to say that one looks great. I had never seen it before.

Here's one of our oldest in Lisbon, built shortly after the reconquest in 1150:

http://www.snpcultura.org/fotografias/quem_somos_se_lisboa.jpg

[2Cool]

Igreja Matriz de Válega
http://i.imgur.com/jlbL6.jpg

capela das malheiros
http://i.imgur.com/AvA4V.jpg

Santuário do Senhor Jesus dos Milagres
http://i.imgur.com/zciED.jpg


There's an area in the Azores, I believe it's in Terceira Island where they have a bunch of nice little chapels like these:

Império das Quatro Ribeiras
http://i.imgur.com/eD655.jpg

Império de Santa Rita
http://i.imgur.com/TQOHX.jpg

Império de S. Sebastião
http://i.imgur.com/UXFpu.jpg


Império do Porto Martins
http://i.imgur.com/gdTrU.jpg

[Atlantic Islander]

My favorite:


http://i42.tinypic.com/1427gv5.jpg
http://i41.tinypic.com/259d15x.jpg
http://i43.tinypic.com/2q9mc7s.jpg

[Comte Arnau]

^ I didn't know many of those Portuguese ones, and some look really impressive. :thumb001:

Time for three famous ones from other parts of Iberia: :)

Galicia:

The impressive Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral_of_Santiago_de_Compostela), reputed burial-place of Jesus' apostle Saint James the Greater, consequently the final destination of the famous Way of Saint James (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_St._James), one of the important pilgrimage routes along with Jerusalem and Rome.

The best-known façade is in the Churrigueresque (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churrigueresque) (Late Spanish Baroque) style.

http://luisvalery.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/catedral-exterior-ld1.jpg


Andalusia:

The Cathedral-Mosque of Cordoba (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathedral%E2%80%93Mosque_of_C%C3%B3rdoba), which is a cathedral in the Plateresque (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateresque)(early Spanish Renaissance) style inserted in the former Great Mosque of Córdoba, which had been built on the site of a former Visigothic church, in turn built upon an old pagan temple. Considered a landmark of Islamic architecture, with its distinctive forest of columns, it is the Cathedral of the diocese of Córdoba.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hINTvYlI5DA/TeDteF_XHOI/AAAAAAAAEFQ/GJczXCJjNro/s1600/0.JPG
http://manuelortegaaparicio.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/3835427.jpg


Aragon:

The Basilica-Cathedral of Our Lady of the Pillar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_of_Our_Lady_of_the_Pillar), the most famous building from the city of Saragossa, in Baroque style, with its recognizable silhouette next to the Ebro river.

First church dedicated to Mary in history, local traditions take the history of this basilica to the dawn of Christianity in Iberia attributing to an apparition to Saint James the Great. This is the only known apparition of Mary to have occurred before her Assumption.

http://static.helektron.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/basilica_del_pilar.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v290/zuritoa25/2009%20Zaragoza/PlazadelPilar.jpg

[LouisFerdinand]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHxhGaXEjZw

[Iloko]

The Spanish architecture found in Philippines is usually of the 'Earthquake Baroque' style btw :)

[GabrielZ]

http://www.historiadeportugal.info/historia-de-portugal/mosteiro-da-batalha-cc/imagem-do-mosteiro-da-batalha-32.jpg
Mosteiro da Batalha (Batalha Monastery)
Portugal, constructed where the Battle of Aljubarrota had taken place, with a smashing portuguese/english victory over the numerous castilian/french forces.