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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 onstyles 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 military fortress-like cathedral , 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 onstyles 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 military fortress-like cathedral , 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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