Iglesia de Santo Tomé, Toledo

Castilla–La Mancha

The Iglesia de Santo Tomé is a church located in the historical center of the city of Toledo , and was founded after the reconquest of this city by King Alfonso VI of León. It appears quoted in the 12th century, as constructed on the site of an old mosque of the 11th century. This mosque, together with other mosques in the city, were used as Christian churches without major changes, since in the taking of the city there was no destruction of buildings. However, at the beginning of the 14th century, being in a ruinous state the church was totally rebuilt in charge of Gonzalo Ruiz de Toledo, Lord of Orgaz, and the old minaret of the mosque was transformed into a bell tower in Mudéjar style. Its fame is mainly due to the fact that it contains the painting The Burial of the Count of Orgaz by El Greco, which can be seen by accessing the back of church.

Santo Domingo el Antiguo Altarpiece

Castilla–La Mancha

The Santo Domingo el Antiguo Altarpiece is a 1577-1579 altarpiece by El Greco, painted for the Monastery of Santo Domingo el Antiguo in Toledo, Spain. The artist had just arrived in Spain and this was his first major commission there, gained thanks to Diego de Castilla, who he had met in Rome. The total commission was for nine canvases, seven for the high altar and two for side altars. The high altarpiece was made up of an upper main canvas , a lower main canvas , four flanking panels of saints and a small painting on the tympanum between the two main paintings . Of these, only the original panels of St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist remain in situ, along with the painting for the right-hand side altarpiece, Resurrection. Assumption is now in the Art Institute of Chicago and Holy Trinity in the Prado Museum. The rest are replaced in the church by copies.

Miraflores Charterhouse

Burgos

Miraflores Charterhouse is an Isabelline style charterhouse, or Carthusian monastery of the Order of the Carthusians, built on a hill about three kilometres from the center of the Spanish city of Burgos, autonomous community of Castile and León. Its origin dates back to 1442, when King John II of Castile donated a hunting lodge outside Burgos, which had been erected by his father Henry III of Castile "the Mourner" in 1401, to the Order of the Carthusians for its conversion into a monastery, thus fulfilling his father's wishes, as stated in his will. A fire in 1452 caused the destruction of the pavilion, and construction of a new building began in 1454. It is this building, which was placed under the patronage of Saint Mary of the Annunciation, which exists today. The construction was commissioned to Juan de Colonia, and was continued after his death by his son, Simón de Colonia, who completed the structure in 1484 at the behest of Queen Isabella I of Castile, surviving daughter of kings John II of Castile and Isabella of Portugal, whose impressive buried are housed in the monastery. It is a late-Gothic jewel, and its highlights include the church, whose Isabelline style western facade is decorated with the coats-of-arms of its founders. The monastery consists of a single nave with stellar vault and side chapels, and is topped by a polygonal apse.

Diocesan museum

Helechosa de los Montes

A diocesan museum is a museum for an ecclesiastical diocese, a geographically-based division of the Christian Church. Austria: Evangelical Diocesan Museum, Burgenland in the Evangelical Prayer House in the Mönchhof Village Museum Diocesan Museum, Graz, Styria Gurk Treasury, Carinthia Evangelical Diocesan Museum, Fresach in Fresach, Carinthia Diocesan Museum, Linz, Upper Austria Evangelical Diocesan Museum, Styria in Murau Cathedral Museum Salzburg, Salzburg state Diocesan Museum, St. Pölten, Lower Austria Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, ViennaGermany: Augustiner Museum Freiburg, Diocesan Museum, for the Archbishopric of Freiburg Diocesan Museum, Bamberg Kolumba, Archepiscopal Diocesan Museum, Cologne Diocesan Museum, Eichstätt Domberg Museum, Freising Cathedral Museum, Fulda Cathedral Museum, Hildesheim Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Mainz Diocesan Museum, Osnabrück Archepiscopal Diocesan Museum, and Cathedral Treasury, Paderborn Bishopric Museums, Regensburg Diocesan Museum, RottenburgItaly: Diocesan Museum, Brixen Diocesan Museum Spain: Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art, Álava Diocesan Museum, Albarracín Diocesan Museum, Alcalá de Henares Diocesan Museum, Barbastro Diocesan Museum, Barcelona Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art, Bilbao Cathedral [and Diocesan] Museum, Burgo de Osma Co-cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Cáceres Diocesan Museum, Calahorra Diocesan Museum, Ciudad Real Diocesan and Cathedral Museum, Ciudad Rodrigo Diocesan Museum, Córdoba Diocesan Museum, Cuenca Diocesan Museum, Ibiza Diocesan Museum, Huelva Diocesan Museum, Huesca Diocesan Museum, Jaca Cathedral [and Diocesan] Museum, Jaén Diocesan Museum, La Seu d'Urgell Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Diocesan and Cathedral Museum, León Diocesan and Comarcal Lleida Museum, Lleida Diocesan and Cathedral Museum, Lugo Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art, Moguer Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Mondoñedo Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art, Orihuela Church Museum, Oviedo Diocesan Museum, Palencia Diocesan Museum, Palma de Mallorca Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Pamplona Diocesan Museum, Salamanca Diocesan Museum, San Sebastián Regina Coeli Diocesan Museum, Santillana del Mar Cathedral Museum, Segorbe Diocesan Museum of Ancient Art, Sigüenza Diocesan and Regional Museum, Solsona Diocesan Museum, Tarragona [Diocesan] Museum of Sacred Art, Teruel Diocesan Museum, Tui, Spain Diocesan and Cathedral Museum, Valencia Diocesan and Cathedral Museum, Valladolid Episcopal Museum, Vic Diocesan Museum, Zamora Alma Mater Museum [Diocesan Museum], Zaragoza

Museum of Santa Cruz

Castilla–La Mancha

The Museum of Santa Cruz is a 16th century building in the city of Toledo, Spain, which was originally an important hospital , eventually becoming a museum in the 19th century. The hospital was founded by Cardinal Mendoza at the end of the 15th century to centralize assistance to orphaned and abandoned children in the city. It has a remarkable Plateresque portal, work of Alonso de Covarrubias. The building has a Greek cross plan and four courtyards, two of which were completely completed. The first is of Covarrubias and gives access to the upper floor through a three-ladder staircase. The museum has two floors. The cruiser covers the two floors and is covered with ribbed vaults. In the north arm was located the chapel. The museum has sections of Archeology, Fine Arts and Decorative Arts. The Fine Arts funds are distributed on the first and second floor of the building, and those of archeology, in the Noble Cloister and in an underground floor. The Decorative Arts have a sample of Toledan folk handicrafts, which is also located on the floor of the basement.

Burgos Cathedral

Burgos

The Cathedral of Saint Mary of Burgos is a Catholic church dedicated to the Virgin Mary located in the historical center of the Spanish city of Burgos. Its official name is Santa Iglesia Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de Santa María de Burgos. Its construction began in 1221, in the style of French Gothic architecture and is based on a Latin Cross. After a hiatus of almost 200 years, it went through major embellishments of great splendor in the 15th and 16th centuries: the spires of the main facade, the capilla del Condestable, 'Chapel of the Constable' and dome of the transept. These are elements of the flamboyant Gothic which gives the cathedral its unmistakable profile. The last works of importance were performed in the 18th century, during which the Gothic portals of the main facade were also modified. The style of the cathedral is the Gothic, although it has several decorative Renaissance and Baroque elements as well. The construction and renovations were made with limestone extracted from the quarries of the nearby town of Hontoria de la Cantera. Many works of extraordinary artists are preserved in the cathedral, bearing testimony to the creative genius of architects and sculptors of the Colonia family , the architect Juan de Vallejo, sculptors Gil de Siloé, Felipe Bigarny, Rodrigo de la Haya, Martín de la Haya, Juan de Ancheta and Juan Pascual de Mena, the sculptor and architect Diego de Siloé, the fencer Cristóbal de Andino, the glazier Arnao de Flandes and the painters Alonso de Sedano, Mateo Cerezo, Sebastiano del Piombo or Juan Ricci, among others. The design of the main facade is related to the purest French Gothic style such as found in the contemporary great cathedrals of Paris and Reims, while the interior elevation refers to Bourges Cathedral. The facade consists of three stories topped by two lateral square bell towers. The spires, showing Germanic influence, were added in the 15th century by Juan de Colonia. The portals of Sarmental and la Coronería were constructed in 13th century Gothic style, while the portal de la Pellejería shows 16th century Plateresques-Renaissance influences. The cathedral was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO on October 31, 1984. It is the only Spanish cathedral that has this distinction independently, without being joined to the historic center of a city or in union with other buildings, as in Seville. It is similar in design to Brussels Cathedral.

Seville Cathedral

Seville

The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See , better known as Seville Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. It was registered in 1987 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, along with the adjoining Alcázar palace complex and the General Archive of the Indies. It is the fourth-largest church in the world as well as the largest Gothic church.After its completion in the early 16th century, Seville Cathedral supplanted Hagia Sophia as the largest cathedral in the world, a title the Byzantine church had held for nearly a thousand years. The total area occupied by the building is 11,520 square metres . The Gothic section alone has a length of 126 m , a width of 76 m , and its maximum height in the center of the transept is 42 m . The total height of the Giralda tower from the ground to the weather vane is 104.5 m . Seville Cathedral was the site of the baptism of Infant Juan of Aragon in 1478, only son of the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. Its royal chapel holds the remains of the city's conqueror Ferdinand III of Castile, his son and heir Alfonso the Wise and their descendant king Peter the Just. The funerary monuments for cardinals Juan de Cervantes and Pedro González de Mendoza are located among its chapels. Christopher Columbus and his son Diego are also buried in the cathedral.The Archbishop's Palace is located on the northeastern side of the cathedral.

Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad (Illescas)

Castilla–La Mancha

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Museum of Fine Arts of Seville

Seville

The Museum of Fine Arts of Seville or Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla is a museum in Seville, Spain, a collection of mainly Spanish visual arts from the medieval period to the early 20th century, including a choice selection of works by artists from the so-called Golden Age of Sevillian painting during the 17th century, such as Murillo, Zurbarán, Francisco de Herrera the younger, and Valdés Leal. The building itself was built in 1594, but the museum was founded in 1839, after the desamortizacion or shuttering of religious monasteries and convents, collecting works from across the city and region. The building it is housed in was originally home to the convent of the Order of the Merced Calzada de la Asunción, founded by St. Peter Nolasco during the reign of King Ferdinand III of Castile. Extensive remodeling in the early 17th century was led by the architect Juan de Oviedo y de la Bandera.