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This page has been created by Alba Morán. =1.What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building?= The differences between them are that religious buildings were use to pray to God and civil buildings were use to protect and organise the city. =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:
-Ribat. -Muralla Musulmana. -Muralla Cristiana. -Hospital de Santa Catalina de los Donados. -Casa de Cisneros. -Casa y Torre de los Lujanes. -Plaza del Alamillo. -Calle Cava Alta. -Calle Cava Baja. -Juderia de Lavapíes. -Barrio de la Morería.

·Religious:
-Iglesia de San Nicolás de los Servitas. -Monasterio de San Martín. -Iglesia de San Miguel de los Octoes. -Parroquia de San Ginés. -Parroquia de Santa Cruz. -Parroquia de San Andrés. -Parroquia de San Pedro el viejo. =3.What functions did the religious buildings have?What were they used for?=

-Iglesia de San Nicolás de los Servitas.
It was used as a church and in the Independence war it was used as a barrack, as a store and as a room for the Banda Real to rehearse.

-Monasterio de San Martín.
It was used as a church or a convent.

-Iglesia de San Miguel de los Octoes.
It was used to pray.

-Parroquia de San Ginés.
It was used to pray to San Ginés and in the Civil War it was used as a barrock.

-Parroquia de Santa Cruz.
It was used to pray.

-Parroquia de San Andrés.
It was used to pray to San Andrés.

-Parroquia de San Pedro el viejo.
It was used to pray.

-Ribat.
It was used to protect the city because it had a vigilancy tower.It was also a monastery.

-Muralla Musulmana.
It was used to defend he city.

-Muralla Cristiana.
It was used to defend the new buildings of the city.

-Hospital de Santa Catalina de los Donados.
At first it was an hospital but after it became a chapel.

-Casa de Cisneros.
It was used as a prision for Antonio Pérez.

-Casa y Torre de los Lujanes.
It was used as a house for many people and for a place to meet for many asociations.

-Plaza del Alamillo.
It was used to build there the administrative center of the city.

-Calle Cava Alta.
Was used as a ditch.

-Calle Cava Baja
Was used as a ditch.

-Judería de Lavapiés.
Was used as a place to live for the jews.

-Barrio de la Morería.
It was build because many buildings were placed there. =5.Who ordered and paid for the construction of religious buildings?Why?=

-Iglesia de San Nicolás de los Servitas.
The Muslims ordered it construction.

-Monasterio de San Martín.
Alfonso VII told to build it.

-Iglesia de San Miguel de los Octoes.
We dont know who build it.

-Parroquia de San Ginés.
We dont know who build it.

-Parroquia de Santa Cruz.
Alfonso VIII ordered it construction.

-Parroquia de San Andrés.
Lopez de Salazar build a chapel of the parish.

-Parroquia de San Pedro el viejo.
Francisco Sanz build it.

=6.Who ordered and paid for the construction of the civil buildings?Why?=

-Ribat.
Muhammad I oredered it construction.

-Muralla Musulmana.
The Muslims ordered it construction.

-Muralla Cristiana.
The Christians ordered it construction.

-Hospital de Santa Catalina de los Donados.
Pedro Fernandez ordered it construction.

-Casa de Cisneros.
Benito Jiménez de Cisneros ordered it construction.

-Casa y Torre de los Lujanes.
We dont know who ordered it construction.

-Plaza del Alamillo.
The Muslim ordered it construction.

-Judería de Lavapiés.
The Muslims ordered it construction.

-Barrio de la Morería.
The Muslims construct it. =Considering the buildings that you have studied, write a small composition (10 lines) in which you explain:= =1. In what ways society organized in Madrid during the Middle Ages?= =2. What did the people who built the buildings hope to show with their structures?= =3.What role did religion play during the Middle Ages? Was it a private and personal matter? Or, was it related to social status?= =Give your personal opinion, but support it using the buildings and exampled what you have studied to defend your ideas.= During the Middle Ages Madrid was organized in different groups: The ones that didnt have to pay taxes, hold the most important positions and had economic and political power, called the privileged estates (the clergy and the nobles) and the ones that had to pay taxes and didnt have economic or political power, the non-privileged estate (the workers).I think that the emirs or kings that ordered to construct something wanted to prove that they were more important because they had ordered to construct a building. I also think that people wanted to show their culture throught their constructions, for example the Muslims wanted to show their culture constructing mosques and buldings with arab style and the Christians wanted to show their culture by constructing churchs and building with christian style. Religion was a very important thing in the Middle Ages because it determinates the society that you were going to belong. For example, if your religion was catholic, you belong to the Christian society or if your religion was Arab you belong to the Muslims society. It also determinate your social group because if you were very very catholic you belonged to the clergy, a privileged state.