Reportage on the goings on of Craighan
Iglesia de San Pedro in Ávila was built from the early-mid 12th century until the 13th century, with periodic work stoppages evidenced by changing architecture and decoration. The church has a Latin cross plan, with three naves that terminate in semicircular apses. It lies outside the city walls, separated from from the turret fortification of Ávila’s cathedral by Calle de San Segundo and Plaza de Santa Teresa.
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While St. Stephen’s Basilica is a Catholic church, its could easily double as a shrine to Hungarian monarchy.
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Matthias Church is not the biggest church that I’ve seen (seven chapels?), and I was thinking that I could do a quick pop-in, snap a few pics, and be back in Pest quicker than you can say “Neo Gothic.” It did turn out to be the most ornately painted churches I’ve seen. Every square centimeter was covered in floral or geometric patterns, and I really had to restrain myself photographing literally every wall.
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We haven’t visited that many synagogues on this trip, and so I don’t know why I should be surprised at how church-like the few that we’ve seen are. According to our tour guide at the Dohány Street Synagogue, in this case, it was no accident, as the Jewish community who built it were working very hard to show Budapest that they were “integrated” into Hungarian culture.
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Construction on La Catedral de Santa María, now known as the “Old Cathedral” of Salamanca, was started in the 12th century and completed in the 13th. Owing to the availability of space for a replacement and the need for a place of worship, the Old Cathedral was saved from destruction when the New Cathedral (Catedral de la Asunción de la Virgen) was built starting in 1520 (and lasting until 1733). The New Cathedral was built astride the Old Cathedral, and so share a wall; the Old Cathedral lost its northern transept and width in its left aisle (Evangelical nave).
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Built in the 12th c. by what is believed to be the Orden del Santo Sepulcro (Order of the Holy Sepulchre), Iglesia de la Vera Cruz (the Church of the True Cross) once housed what is believed to be a relic of Lignum Crucis, a splinter from the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
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The Roman ruins of Itálica are just outside of Sevilla. Founded in 206 BC, Itálica was the first Roman settlement in Southern Spain.
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