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1.What marks the differences between a civil and religious building ? The main difference between them is that the Religious buildings were built to pray and to workship god althouhg Civil buildings werw udes to protect the city, to political issues to justice or to have a secure place to look what was happening around the town. 2.Make a list of the most important civil buildings and another of the most important religious buildings in the city that you can still see today. CIVIL BUILDINGS: Muralla cristiana

Casa y Torre de los Lujanse

RELIGIOUS BUILDINGS: Parroquia de San Ginés Parroquia de San Andrés Monasterio de San Martín

3.What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for? Muralla Cristiana : A muslim, For zone munumental that to give life to the new bariumsarisen after the reconquist.

Casa y Torre de los Lujanes : It is important because it is one of the tallest buildings in the capital, probably the highest civilian buildings. One of the most emblematic buildings of the capital, considered the oldest civil building in Madrid. Has been allocated to various uses, the residence of King Francis I of France (1520). At the end of the sixteenth century lived and Fernando Lujan Diego in the mid-eighteenth century was the residence of the Conde De Castro Ponce. During the reign of Fernando VII were located semaphore facilities, since 1858 it became the headquarters of the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country, the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and the Royal Academy of Sciences, Physical and Naturales.Un years before they moved here these institutions the government decided to retain this building and was responsible for its reform, but on the basis of the views of critics of the time should not be very accurate, since the former were revoked architectural elements of the facade, except for the cover of granite quarrying and even crowned with a crenellated tower that had never had. In 1910 the council commissioned architect Luis Bellido Gonzalez restore the property to install the City Newspaper, but also regained its original architectural elements of Hospital De La Latina and the empty tomb of Beatriz Galindo and Francisco Ramirez.

4. What function did the religious buildings have? What were they used for? Parroquia de San Ginés: Servia to worship St. Genesius of Aries. Also served during the Civil War as a military barracks. The parish church of San Ginés currently has a major art collection Redeco although compared with this for centuries anteriores.Destacan three altarpieces in which combined sculpture and painting from the pictorial treasures of the church stand out a canvas and Alonso Cano Big Picture presiding altar by Francisco Ricci Parroquia de San Andres :Currently the parish is replaced by the rectory, and that burned in the año1936, but instead used the Chapel of San Isidro to say Mass once a year and are removed the remains of San Isidro Monasterio de San Martin : In 1836, ownership passed to the state, who used the monastery to Civil Government Offices, County Council, Court and stock exchange, board of Health and Civil Guard barracks. Was demolished in 1868 and now his place is occupied by the building of the Caja de Ahorros y Monte de Piedad de Madrid, conducted during 1870 and 1875.