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Serrano Street Medina, 2, 19250 Siguenza, Guadalajara, Spain
Siguenza Cathedral is dedicated to Santa Maria Maggiore, patron saint of Siguenza. It originated in January 1124, when Bishop Bernard of Agén (1080-1152) reconquered the city to Muslims, at the time of the reign of Urraca, daughter of Alfonso VI. He was appointed bishop in 1121 (before the conquest of the place), by the archbishop of Toledo, Sedirac Bernard, of the order of Cluny, continuing the influence of this monastic order introduced in the Kingdom of Castile by Alfonso VI and Alfonso I of Aragon, husband of Queen Castilian. This bishop succeeded by Alfonso VII (1126-1157) and grant privileges with which the new population increase, unifying the two villages: the upper around the castle and the lower, the Mozarabic, around the bed of the Henares.
The works of the cathedral came in later centuries by different bishops, who were building in styles of each era to nave made in full Gothic in the fifteenth century, which covered the vaults of the future cruise as bishop Cardinal Mendoza. The ornamental part lasted until XVIII.1 century
Especially in the interior its Gothic appearance, since in XVI century reforms were destroyed Romanesque apses side to build the ambulatory. The two outer towers of the main facade with battlements give it a look of strengthCathedral military, as in other religious buildings of the same era, by the functions of temple-fortress bore. The Siguenza was named the fortis Siguenza.
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Serrano Street Medina, 2, 19250 Siguenza, Guadalajara, Spain
Siguenza Cathedral is dedicated to Santa Maria Maggiore, patron saint of Siguenza. It originated in January 1124, when Bishop Bernard of Agén (1080-1152) reconquered the city to Muslims, at the time of the reign of Urraca, daughter of Alfonso VI. He was appointed bishop in 1121 (before the conquest of the place), by the archbishop of Toledo, Sedirac Bernard, of the order of Cluny, continuing the influence of this monastic order introduced in the Kingdom of Castile by Alfonso VI and Alfonso I of Aragon, husband of Queen Castilian. This bishop succeeded by Alfonso VII (1126-1157) and grant privileges with which the new population increase, unifying the two villages: the upper around the castle and the lower, the Mozarabic, around the bed of the Henares.
The works of the cathedral came in later centuries by different bishops, who were building in styles of each era to nave made in full Gothic in the fifteenth century, which covered the vaults of the future cruise as bishop Cardinal Mendoza. The ornamental part lasted until XVIII.1 century
Especially in the interior its Gothic appearance, since in XVI century reforms were destroyed Romanesque apses side to build the ambulatory. The two outer towers of the main facade with battlements give it a look of strengthCathedral military, as in other religious buildings of the same era, by the functions of temple-fortress bore. The Siguenza was named the fortis Siguenza.
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