Styles of architecture in Spain. The most famous monuments of Spain

Spain is a country of conquistadors and seafarers, merchants and travelers, pirates and beautiful women, exquisite dishes and picturesque architecture. In the Spanish kingdom throughout the entire course of its existence, revolutions rattled, dictatorial power was overthrown, and the post-war regime was destroyed. People returned to peaceful life and revived monuments of historical times. The artists sprinkled the canvases, and the masters sculpted the buildings and gigantic monuments. Spain lived by the only unwritten laws known to her and still exists in beautiful and uncommon performance as a relic civilization.

Architecture of Spain - the cultural value of the world

Perhaps, the architecture of such a beautiful country as Spain, should be treated with all due respect. This unpredictable and fantastic world, surrounded from different sides by the high ridges of the Pyrenees and Cantabria, as well as the Iberian and Catalan mountains with the adjacent Canary Islands. Throughout these natural tablets, there is the proud kingdom of the Spanish people. Pinnacles of palaces and museums, columns of amphitheatres, statues of Roman gods and heroes of ancient Greek Hellas. Openwork houses and mosaic front gardens, avenues and fountains, parks and galleries. Cathedrals and mosques, monuments of European and Islamic styles, unforgettable structures, captivating fairy-tale and uniqueness. The architecture of Spain is amazing with its magnificence, despite the modest size of the Atlantic state.

The style of the Spanish ancestors

Having visited this paradise, attracting millions of tourists, all your life you will remember the exciting feelings from the experienced beauties. The architecture styles in Spain are striking in the depth of inspiration and the uniqueness of the creation. Many buildings of Rome are built of durable brick, still grinded by winds of stories. Mudejar - this is the name of the style of architecture created from this noble material. He absorbed the man-made and intellect of European, Jewish and Moorish masters. Also in the brickwork there are styles of Gothic and Baroque that arose in the early 17-18 centuries. And in the 19-20 centuries, modernism was born - the image of art school of talented architect Antonio Gaudi. Many works are included in the UNESCO world heritage. These are exhibits such as a park with a castle, commissioned by the Catalan industrialist and politician Eusebi Güell and named in his honor, the Vissens house, the Batllo estate and the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. At the end of the 19th century, the Neomudahar style became fashionable, with the exclusion of which was dominated by the decoration of arches, domes and walls with mosaics and colored clay tiles.

Monuments of Spain as the revitalized heritage of Catalonia

The diversity and grandeur of the monuments of culture and heritage, with which the Spanish plateau of the mountainous country flutter, are enchanted and dipped into distant landmarks of epic and legends. Starting with the ruins of the Roman immigrants La Llosa, you can make a stunning excursion through the territories and villages. These are beautiful monuments of Spain architecture , such as:

• A fortified wall begins at the church of St. Mary and stretches to Plaza Catalunya.
• Siege walls and gates of Alcudia;
• Architectural ruins of Baelo Claudia and La Llosa.
• The towers of Tavira and Torre del Oro, Torre Vella and Almenaras, Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Fortress of Moors.
• Bridges Alcantara, Mary-Christina, Subsuri and Iron Pont De Ferro;
• Gate of the Sun and Sherry, Puerta de Tierra and Alcudia.
• Fountains of the water maze, luminous and enchanting.
• The pedestals of Columbus, Don Juan, a copper-bronze monument "Victory".
• Necropolises and theaters, municipalities and hospitals, palaces and idols.

And also many other rarities of a cultural society of all times are gathered in one amazing kingdom. She talks about past events and excites when she touches her, makes you plunge completely into luxurious created fads, and her name is the architecture of Spain. Photo rarities of this charming temptress full of albums not only connoisseurs, but also amateurs-regulars who love to return again and again to the heritage of Catalonia.

Mauritanian style as a miracle of the Golden Age

In the Middle Ages, at the dawn of the 8th century, a unique style of Moorish origin was born in the Spanish county. It is based on the Islamic and Spanish brushes of architects. This copulation of architecture was brought about by the formation of Arab enlightenment on the peninsula of the Pyrenees. The main event of the culture was the construction in 784 of Mesquita - the Roman Catholic Cathedral. In the following years, these elements and design were perfected and saturated with the unusual decor of the creators. These are carved carvings and arches with openwork bindings, walls and towers of palaces, made in the form of teeth and rhombuses. The brick skeletons were carved with lace, metallic majolica and crushed plinfa. The roofs of the towers were framed by eight-pointed stars.

Continuing on Mauritania and the cathedrals

In the book of UNESCO, such constructions as the royal alcazars (castles) of Alfonso 11th and Seville, the Cathedral of Saint Mary and the Parish of Santiago del Arrabal, executed in an unsurpassed Moorish style, are taken under protection. Throne rooms of the chambers were framed with gold and inlay, and columns and pedestals - figured carving and molding with built-in decor elements. Miracle-style intervened in the art of the eras and mixed Gothic and Romanesque traditions with a new all-consuming direction. Mauritanian architecture of Spain has painted its own list of bizarre catalogs and embodied the historical plans of mankind.

Baroque style as a museum jewel of Spain

A significant contribution to the museum's tablets brought the baroque style of Spain. The architecture of this work is rich in scenery of the facades of houses, greenhouses and holy houses. His baroque path begins in the second half of the 17th century and a whirlwind breaks into the eighteenth. There were few masters of such a graceful style, but those who paid tribute to him became, in fact, the "oligarchs" of this manuscript. Such instigators and virtuosi of their cause were the brothers Churriger. Five related souls - Joaquim, Miguel, Alberto, Manuel and Jose Benito - ennobled the beauty of the baroque most of Spain.

Spanish architectural tablets of the 17th century

In general, Spain's architecture of the 17th century begins to amaze with its emancipation and luxury. Religious sculpture appears in the country along with folk traditions, strengthening and forming them. Zurbaran Francisco is a wooden architect who performs the first abstraction works on plastic with elements of mysticism. The most material creations of the artist were: "Still life with lemons and oranges" - 1633, "Madonna in adolescence" - 1660, "Still life of vases and cups" - 1640. The seventeenth century is full of dramatic episodes in art and counter-reform moods in society . In this difficult period, a realistic form of etude addition has evolved dramatically.

What the 19th century prepared for us, or Glamorous Spain

In the 19th century, the channel of perfection flowed into the era of Gothic and modern. Skeleton skeletons of buildings made of reinforced concrete structures began to be erected. The decoration was made of stone and forged steel, glass and plywood. Also used were hard rocks of clay, asbestos and tiles. Spain's architecture of the 19th century expanded its borders, penetrating the future of sculptures and structures with more solid and perfect foundations. To take and build now it was possible freely from any improvised materials. The plasticity and firmness of the masses, the dynamics and artistic effects of the painting, the correct geometric contours are the main feature of the architectural sculptures and decorative finishes of the nineteenth century.

Oh, how many discoveries there are wonderful!

In the azure country of Spanish ancestors, a great number of architectural attractions and stylistic discoveries are involved. List them all is not possible because of the abundance of those. The architecture of Spain has thousands of memorable memorials and structures. We list the main and significant creations of the hands of eminent people:

1. Temples of the Gothic style - Alcazar, Burgas and Seville, Toledo and Tarragon.
2. Castles and palaces - Rahadel and Argimon, Vilasar and Medion, Mantaplan and Manresan, Arench de Emporda and Montsori, as well as hundreds of stone-sculptural creations.
3. The Catalan National Museum with the Gothic Quarter and Montserrat Monastery, the parks of Guell and the Citadel.
4. The houses of Calvette, Mila, Vincins and the chapel of the family sagrada.

Such delights can boast not every world empire. The fact that invested in Spain, it is all the merit of once inhabited here rare artisans and specialists.

Creators of Culture

The architecture of the revival in Spain begins still far before 711, when the kingdom was marked by the settlement of Muslims. In the Pyrenean lands, architectural structures of the ancient civilizations of the pre-Roman era were found. They were representatives of tribes, called cantabrames, celtiberians and Iberians. After the ancient era, inimitable inspirers and figures came to the culture of Spain , such as: Gaudi Antonio and Juan de Villanueva, Jose Acebillo and Vicente Acero, Santiago Calatrava and Juan Gomez de Mora, Pedro Machuca and Raphael Moneo, Damian Fortament and Jose Benito Churriguera, Manuel Nunez-Janowski and Joaquin Handicraft. And dozens of phenomenal creators of different generations. All of them have done laborious work on the flowering and creation of the Spanish territories. Thanks to such architects, sculptors, stonemasons and other handicraft masters, Spain has become the apple of God and the heart of the cultural world.

To sculpt elegance is not to dig a catacomb

Now we know how the Spanish architecture was conceived and what path it took before reaching the heights of the priceless presumption of adoration. How many minds and hands worked on the great Spanish enlightenment to create the unprecedented. That grace that will be passed on to children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and further along the pedigree of the tree branch. Even in order to build catacombs, you need skill and ingenuity. And to create immortal creations - all the more so. After all, in every detail is the soul of a separate architect, each of them he appeased with his breath and patience, stroked warmly along and across and carefully inserted into place. A trip to Spain will be the best confirmation of that. And it is better to see everything in reality with your own eyes and bring a piece of noble memory from where the fascinating height of the bridges and the huge halls of temples and museums will give true pleasure for the rest of your life.