Iglesia de San Miguel de Escalada Iglesia de San Miguel de EscaladaID: Secanda 24.1 (2024-07-16)
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San Miguel de Escalada is an old, mostly pre-Romanesque, abbey church. It is located on the road to Santiago de Compostela.
Although often listed as a Mozarabic edifice, this beautiful church is not Mozarabic in the strict sense, but bears witness to the strong influence of the Mozarabic style, and thus of Islamic architecture, in the areas reconquered by the Asturian kingdom. The term Mozarabic refers to the Christians (men, their rites and art) under Islamic occupation. This church was built on the site of an ancient Visigothic church, of which some rare re-uses seem to be present in the later building: perhaps portions of friezes and low cancel slabs and more probably some columns (themselves ancient re-uses in the Visigothic building).
The "Mozarabic" part of the building (nave, side aisles, fore-choir and apses) dates back to the 10th century. The elegant southern portico is from the 11th century (it is inhomogeneous, built in two phases). The portico, although later than the nave, adopts its Islamic style. The bell-tower and the vast eastern chapel (Capilla di San Fructuoso) are roughly contemporary with the portico or barely later than it, but adopt a rather heavy, purely Romanesque style that lacks any Islamic influence.
El monasterio de San Miguel de Escalada is registered as Monumento nacional in the Registro General de Bienes de Interés Cultural (Historical Spanish Heritage) since 1886.
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Categories: Churches, Chapels and Abbeys | Middle Ages s.l. | Early Middle Ages | High Middle Ages | Spain |
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