Architecture in Spain

architectural style

architectural style historically developed in the western Islamic world

thumb|270px|New Cathedral of Salamanca (1513-1733) in the Plateresque made city of [[Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain]] thumb|270px|Hostal dos Reis Católicos|Hospital of the Catholic Monarchs (1501-1511), in [[Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain]] Plateresque, meaning "in the manner of a silversmith" (plata being silver in Spanish), was an artistic movement, especially architectural, developed in Spain and its territories, which appeared between the late Gothic and early Renaissance in the late 15th century and spread over the next two centuries. It is a modification of Gothic spatial con

art style in post-Islamic Spain

architecture in Spain

thumb|Asturias|Asturian hórreo thumb|Hórreo in Galicia (Spain)|Galicia

Neo-Mudéjar is a type of Moorish Revival architecture practised in the Iberian Peninsula and to a far lesser extent in Ibero-America. This architectural movement emerged as a revival of Mudéjar style. It was an architectural trend of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that began in Madrid and Barcelona and quickly spread to other regions in Spain and Portugal. It used Mudéjar style elements such as the horseshoe arch, arabesque tiling, and abstract shaped brick ornamentations for the façades of modern buildings.

square in Salamanca, Spain

thumb|250px|Palloza in O Cebreiro, in the municipality of [[Pedrafita do Cebreiro. The ethnographic park of this town, the first step in Galician land of the French Way, has several restored examples of traditional palloza, buildings characteristic of the pre-Roman culture which still exists in many other parts of the natural region of Os Ancares]]

architectural style of the Kingdom of Asturias

thumb|180px|Artesonado in the Throne Room of the Aljafería in [[Zaragoza, Spain]] thumb|180px|Artesonado in the Tlaxcala City Cathedral, Mexico Artesonado or Spanish ceiling is a term for "a type of intricately joined wooden ceiling in which supplementary laths are interlaced into the rafters supporting the roof to form decorative geometric patterns", found in Spanish architecture. It is an example of Mudéjar style.

Late Medieval Spanish architecture

Spanish heritage structures of cultural interest and legal figure of protection for this kind of heritage. Subcategory of BIC

low brickwork arch

former technical college and today's cultural monument

style of architecture

subcategory of assets of cultural interest in Spain and all the heritage assets that have received this classification

thumb|250px|Ruins of Castle of Chinchón resembling Spanish colonial presidios

architectural element

collection of lithographs by Jenaro Pérez Villaamil

capuchin Convent in Valladolid, Spain

architectural element

proposed vertical city

thumb|Copy of GATEPAC's journal thumb|w:es:Club Náutico de San Sebastián|Club Náutico de San Sebastián (1929) designed by [[José Manuel Aizpúrua and Joaquín Labayen]] GATEPAC (Grupo de Artistas y Técnicos Españoles Para la Arquitectura Contemporánea) was a group of young architects who assembled during the Second Spanish Republic. Its most important members were: Josep Lluís Sert, Antoni Bonet Castellana, Josep Torres Clavé, José Manuel Aizpurúa, Fernando García Mercadal and Sixte Illescas. The group was formed in 1930 as a Spanish branch of C.I.A.M. The Eastern (Catalan) and founding section

architectural style

Medicinal garden with more than 400 species of medicinal, aromatic and culinary plants from different parts of the world.

Spain, Valencia; construction

skyscraper in Madrid