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=1. What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building?= The difference between a civil building and a religious building is that a civil building is used by the city council and a religious building is used by the church.

=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: 1.Ribat. 2.Muslim wall. 3.Christian wall. 4.Santa Catalina de los Donados Hospital. 5.Cisneros house. 6.House and tower of "Los Lujanes". 7.Alamillo square. 8.Cava alta street. 9.Cava baja street. 10.Lavapies jewish quarter. 11.Moreria neightborhood.

Religious buildings: 1.San Nicolas de los Servitas church. 2.San Martin monastery. 3.San Miguel de los Octoes church. 4.San Gines parish. 5.Santa Cruz parish. 6.San Andres parish. 7.San Pedro el viejo church.

Answer the following questions for each of the buildings that you mention on your list.
=3. What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for?=

1.Ribat: It was built for avoid being atack by the christians. Now it is the Real Palace of Madrid an it is used for visiting it and sometimes the real family stays there for a few days. 2.Muslim wall: It was used to protect the muslims agains the christians. Now it is used for children that need to study and tourist to visit it. 3.Christian wall: It was used to protect the borders of Madrid. Now it is a monument for turism. 4.Santa Catalina de los Donados Hospital: It was a hospital fot attend 12 old men. 5.Cisneros house: It was a prison, the court of romanones was born there and the general Narvaez and Polavieja resided there. Now it is used like a 5 stars hotel. 6.House and tower of "Los Lujanes": It was the residence of King Francis I of France, Fernando and Diego of Lujan, the Conde of Castro Ponce. There were located the optical telegraph installations and it became the seat of the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country, the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, and the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Naturals Sciences. Now it is the seat of the Royal Academy of Politic and Moral Scieces. 7.Alamillo square: It was built because the muslims wanted to locate a court of justice, a city council and a building to live there. 8.Cava alta street. 9.Cava baja street. 10.Lavapies jewish quarter. 11.Moreria neightborhood. It was a building that helped the muslims to defend themselves. Now many people goes fot see the wall.

=4. What function did the religious buildings have? What were they used for?=

1.San Nicolas de los Servitas church:It was built as a parish, but during the independence war it was used to storege the weapons, later it was used as cuartel,warehouse,and as the acting hall of the Royal Band. Now it is used for the Easter mass. 2.San Martin monastery: It was built to serve as parish or convent. It was destroyed in 1868. 3.San Miguel de los Octoes church: It was built for pray an to conffered God. Now it is used for masses and confessions for other celebrations like weddings or communions. 4.San Gines parish: They used to pay homage to.St.Genesius of Arles. Also was used during the Civil war like militar encampment. Now it is used to catholic Mass. 5.Santa Cruz parish: The parish was built to commemorate the victory of Las Navas de Tolosa. Now it is used to visit and pray to God. 6.San Andres parish: It was built to pay tribute to San Andres. 7.San Pedro el viejo church.

=5. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the civil buildings? Why?=

1.Ribat: The emir Muhammad order to build it. To avoid being atack by the christians. 2.Muslim wall: The emir Muhammad I order its construction. To protect the muslim kingdom. 3.Christian wall: Alfonso VII of Castilla order to buil it. It was built by the christians. 4.Santa Catalina de los Donados Hospital: It was sent to built by Pedro Fernandez. For attending old men. 5.Cisneros house: It was built by Benito Jiménez of Cisneros, and the restorations by Luis Bellido Gonzalez and Felipe Trigo. 6.House and tower of "Los Lujanes": The house was told to built by Alvaro de Lujan. To live there. 7.Alamillo square: The muslims order to build it. It was built by the muslims. For locate a court of justice, a city council and a building to live there. 8.Cava alta street. 9.Cava baja street. 10.Lavapies jewish quarter. 11.Moreria neightborhood. Muhammed I ordered to build it. It helped the muslims to defend themselves.

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

1.San Nicolas de los Servitas church: Probably it was ordered by some muslim monarch or governor. 2.San Martin monastery: It was told to built by Alfonso VII. It was rebuilt by the command of Gaspar Ordoñez and it was rebuilt by Fernando Arbos. 3.San Miguel de los Octoes church: It was order to rebuilt by the Cardinal Infante Luis Antonio de Borbón y Farnesio and it was rebuilt by Santiago Bonavia. 4.San Gines parish. 5.Santa Cruz parish: It was order to built by Alfonso VIII. 6.San Andres parish. 7.San Pedro el viejo church.

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.
The society was organized in two groups of people: the privilege estates and the non-privileged estates. All the building were told to build by rich people thet had the money to pay for them. And some of the civil buildings were theis houses. There was a big difference between them. I think that the people who built the building wanted to show that thir building can be better than other building that were already built. For example their structures should be more resistent than the other's structures. The religion was very important because there were many buildingd to give worship to God. There were many churchs like the San Nicolas de los Servitas Church, the San Miguel de los Octoes Church or the San Pedro el Viejo Church. There were also many parishes and monasterys, like the San Gines parish, the Santa Cruz parish, the San Andres parish and the San Martin monastery. The religion was not a private matter. I think everybody could be religious in the middle age. But obviously the rich people have more rights over the church. And they could pay the priests to do what they wanted.