San isidoro de leon interior

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León is a Roman foundation. Here, on the banks of the Bernesga River, the Legio VII Gemina set up its camp, which led to the development of a city: Legio. Taken by the Arabs, it was later reconquered and its influence in the early medieval world was very relevant. Cayetano Luca de Tena rightly said of its Pantheon. “Here sleeps all the history of the Middle Ages”. The fact that it is located on the most important pilgrimage route, through which men and ideas circulated, contributed decisively to this. In short, religion, culture and commerce. The undoubted medieval attraction for the veneration of the relics of famous saints made it a temple of pilgrimage of the first order within this route.

A series of reforms (as in so many other places -Jaca, for example-) in the name of modernity or the reduced space for the liturgy, was the cause of the disappearance of its central apse that was replaced in the XVI century by another of greater importance in Flemish Gothic style built by Juan de Badajoz “El Viejo”. There are also Renaissance traces in its north façade: over the doorway of the Lamb there is San Isidoro on horseback over a decoration of the XVI century. In spite of all the changes, the Romanesque building is shown to us with resounding clarity. This is largely due to the fact that the splendid Cathedral of León was not built over this temple, as happened, for example, in the city of Palencia.

Basilica of san isidoro discovery

There are no remains of the Visigothic period, nor of the Arab period, nor of the first times of the Reconquest. The first references in chronicles and documents appear in the middle of the 10th century, giving news of the churches of San Juan and San Pelayo, which around this time began to develop.

King Sancho I of León (Sancho the Crassus) wanted this church to be built. Throughout the centuries and up to the 21st century it was transformed physically and spiritually, undergoing periods of great splendor and periods of authentic decadence. Here are the different phases through which it passed; they are phases with a lot of historical load in which the influence of the successive kings and their family environment was noticed to a great extent.

The Infantado was a famous medieval institution from the middle of the 10th century, established in favor of the unmarried infantas who lived as nuns in the monasteries; these infantas came to rule a large number of monasteries, contributing villages and various properties as a dowry.

Conde de león

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La Basílica de San Isidoro de León es una iglesia de León, España, situada en el emplazamiento de un antiguo templo romano. Sus raíces cristianas se remontan a principios del siglo X, cuando se erigió en el recinto un monasterio para San Juan Bautista.

En 1063, la basílica se volvió a dedicar a San Isidro de Sevilla. Isidoro fue arzobispo de Sevilla y el más célebre académico y teólogo de la España visigoda en el periodo anterior a las invasiones árabes. Con el acuerdo de Abbad II al-Mu’tadid, gobernante musulmán de Sevilla, las reliquias de Isidoro fueron llevadas a León, donde pudieron ser enterradas en suelo cristiano. La tumba del santo sigue atrayendo a muchos visitantes. En lo alto de la fachada se puede ver una estatua ecuestre de San Isidro vestido de matador de moros, además de otras muchas esculturas.

Booty house

Name: Real Colegiata Bas�lica de San Isidoro Location: Le�n. Comunidad Aut�noma de Castilla-Le�n Declared in 1910 Monumento Hist�rico Art�stico Gentilicio: leoneses In 1942 receives the title of Bas�lica Menor by Pope P�o XII

The Collegiate Church of Santa Isidoro rises over the settlement of the Roman military camp of the Legio VII Gemina, which later became the foundational seed of the city of Leon. In 966, the king of Leon, Sancho I the Crassus (956-966), ordered the construction of a temple to house the remains of the martyr Pelagius, whose remains had been brought from Muslim Cordoba. The León king built a monastery next to a church dedicated to San Juan Bautista, whose origin seems to be in a Roman temple dedicated to some god of the waters. The sister of Sancho I, Elvira Ramirez, abbess or “domina” of the Palatine monastery of San Salvador de Palat de Rey (in the same city of Le�n) moves with her monastic community to this new convent of San Pelayo. In the year 988 Almanzor razes the monastery and the nuns run to take refuge in the city of Oviedo, taking with them the remains of the martyr Pelayo. It was the king of Leon, Alfonso V the Noble (999-1028) who built a new monastery in the early eleventh century, which received the name of Monastery of San Juan and San Pelayo in pre-Romanesque style. At the foot of the church, a crypt was built to serve as a pantheon for the kings of Leon, whose remains were scattered in different churches of the Kingdom.