Iberian religious architecture

[Comte Arnau]

Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes
Location: Toledo (Castile)
Style: Isabelline (Castilian Gothic)




Monastery of the Hieronymites
Location: Lisbon (Portugal)
Style: Manueline (Portuguese Late Gothic)




Church of Santa Maria del Mar
Location: Barcelona (Catalonia)
Style: Catalan Gothic




Abbey of Saint Peter in Siresa
Location: Siresa (Aragon)
Style: Cluniac-like Romanesque

[Catrau]

Cathedral of Évora. This Gothic Cathedral is a most relevant Portuguese cathedrals, deas was built between the 13th and 14th centuries.




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

http://pt.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Igrej...oimbra​)




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.




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.




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.




Church of Vila Flor built in the early eighteenth century, is essentially Baroque.
http://www.cm-vilaflor.pt/




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.





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.





Romanesque Church Bravães. One of my favorites from a Romanesque pure and simple minimalist straight lines.
http://​www.turismoreligioso.org/​mo...hbkOYkx9aacYOu




Manueline portal of the Church of St John Baptist in Tomar.

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All in mainland Portugal:

Alcobaça Monastery (UNESCO heritage site)


Saint Michael's Monastery


Igreja da Memória


Igreja do Hospital


Santuário do Sameiro


Igreja Matriz de Almodôvar


Santuário do Sr. do Socorro


Igreja Matriz da Golegã (one of first Manueline churches in Portugal I believe)


Igreja de São Francisco (Porto)


Church in Silves


Romaria de Nossa Senhora d'Aires


Mosteiro de Salzedas


Igreja de Cortegaça

[Damião de Góis]

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:

[2Cool]

Igreja Matriz de Válega


capela das malheiros


Santuário do Senhor Jesus dos Milagres



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


Império de Santa Rita


Império de S. Sebastião



Império do Porto Martins

[Atlantic Islander]

My favorite:

[Comte Arnau]

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

Time for three famous ones from other parts of Iberia:

Galicia:

The impressive 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, one of the important pilgrimage routes along with Jerusalem and Rome.

The best-known façade is in the Churrigueresque (Late Spanish Baroque) style.




Andalusia:

The Cathedral-Mosque of Cordoba, which is a cathedral in the 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.





Aragon:

The Basilica-Cathedral 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.

[LouisFerdinand]

[Iloko]

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

[GabrielZ]

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.