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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My relationship with Budapest got off to a rocky start, but as we got out into the city more, we really enjoyed our twelve days there. It was a nice place to relax a bit, and the architecture and nature are great for afternoon walks.
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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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The star attraction in Salamanca, at least for us, was the cathedral, or more accurately, cathedrals. When the parish outgrew their 14th-century cathedral, they decided to leave it standing and just build the much larger “new” cathedral. The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin (Catedral de la Asunción de la Virgen), more commonly known as the New Cathedral (Catedral Nueva), was built between 1513-1733 (consecrated in 1733). The cathedrals share a wall, and it was really neat to see the two styles literally next to each other.
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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 Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, or La Mezquita as it’s more commonly known, is an encapsulation of the history of the Iberian Peninsula, brilliantly restored and preserved in one building. We knew that it was a mosque that had been turned into a cathedral, but it turns out to be so much more than that.
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