Index of files of monuments

In 1925, 1 km from Albelda de Iregua, the remains of a church consisting of a central nave, chancel, portico and two lateral compartments with a sarcophagus on the north side were found in 1925. It is estimated that it was built in the second half of the 7th century, and we could include it in the group of cruciform churches of funerary type to which San Fructuoso de Montelios gave origin.

In 1979 the remains of another church twinned to the previous one were discovered in the same area, which seems to show that it was a duplex monastery, with the particularity that in this second church there was a hergastyle, possibly dedicated to a monk.

The foundations of this church have been preserved. It has the shape of a Greek cross, with an horseshoe shaped apse, both internally and externally and two lateral compartments at each side of the chevet, of a different structure, separated from the rest of rthe church on one side; the one placed on the northern side still has a baptismal font.

Of a single nave with a horseshoe shaped apse and located somewhat higher than the nave in which three sepulchral graves have shown up. It faces north-south and had its entrance on a nartex in the northern face. It was modified in the 6th century, a baptistry was added and the flat cover was replaced by a system based on barrel vaults and possibly a dome in the central part of the nave.

During the work on an urban planning plan around the Castle of Morón de la Frontera, the remains of a Visigoth church were discovered, of which only a third of it was preserved, which correspond mainly to one of the pastoral rooms and to part of the apse, joined by a thick wall of ashlars. The excavation carried out and the study of the remains located during the intervention allow us to consider that they are those of a basilica with three naves, dating from the end of the 6th century or the beginning of the 7th century.

La ermita actual está reconstruida en 1745 y restaurada a finales del S. XX. Es de planta rectangular en mampostería y sillería en las esquinas, en la que se utilizaron materiales de una necrópolis cercana en la que han aparecido algunos ajuares y varias estelas. En la excavación de su interior en 1994 apareció la cimentación de un edificio prerrománico que constaba de nave y ábside más estrecho, ambos de forma rectangular en la que se han constatado tres fases de construcción, una de los siglos V-VI, otra de época visigoda en la que se añadió el ábside, y la tercera de los siglos IX-X.

The deposit of Los Hitos, next Arisgotas’s locality, Toledo, is composed by the remains of a building constructed in masonry and sillarejo with stirrups or external buttresses, divided in three areas, with the central of major extent that the wings. His singular structure and the appearance of a sarchofagus of marble surrounded with other graves speak to us about a possible court or funeral function of the building, raised in the 7th century.

A building formed by a square plan with two attached square rooms, with areas built with Roman ashlars and others probably as a result of later recosntructions in brick and medieval dressed stone. It has a crypt covered with a sail vault with two access staircases from the lateral chambers that are covered with spherical hoods upon pendentives

Placed inside a Roman villa, this building formed by two square domed rooms, with an alone entry in placed in the eastern part. This room, which was dedicated in the 4th century to mausoleum adding a crypt and an important decoration preserves in mosaics and paintings of funeral early Christian Spanish art, has form of cylinder with four semicircular niches. The room west, of interior plant cuatrilobulada, is in much worse condition.

It is possibly the most ancient building in the peninsula of unquestionable Christian origin. It consists of a construction of two equal superimposed plans with a double vault, that had the martyrium with the apse in its lower plan, isolated from the burial zone by a wall and the upper part dedicated to worship.

Mausoleum discovered in 1885, but without beginning to be investigated until 1968, which is considered one of the most interesting funerary monuments of its time in Hispania. Intended to house the remains of several members of a family in the surroundings of an important villa, it is built inside a circle 24m in diameter, formed by two octagonal bodies separated by an ambulatory, the exterior of which was made of masonry. with two leaves reinforced by pieces of granite in the corners, with a crypt where the sarcophagi were deposited, which is accessed by stairs from one side of the interior octagon.

On a Visigothic basilica dedicated to San Vicente Mártir, some late Roman and Byzantine structures and the Roman road network of the capital of Hispania Ulterior, and later Colonia Patricia, construction began around 785/786 on the founding Mosque of Abd al- Rahman I. We assume that its location obeyed the urban and layout characteristics, as well as the framework of royal power at that time (Church, Royal Palace and other dependencies of the episcopal seat). The few excavations (due to the preservation of the temple) will come to the conclusion of the existence of an episcopal seat prior to the presence of Islam in the Peninsula.

The coenobium complutense is the first of the great foundations made by the Gothic hermit Fructuoso on the lands he owned in Bergidum Flavium, El Bierzo, in the first half of the 7th century. He did it -according to the few preserved texts- forced by circumstances: Fructuoso was an inveterate solitary, and to enjoy his solitude he had to create spaces in which to take care of his numerous followers and he even wrote a Regula Monachorum for them. The continuity in time of the Complutense monastery until the 12th-13th centuries is supported by the preserved written documentation.

The Guarrazar deposit is located in the municipality of Guadamur, about 15 km. southwest of the city of Toledo. Known internationally for its impressive Visigothic treasure, for several years now, under the direction of Juan Manuel Rojas Rodríguez-Malo, several campaigns of archaeological excavations and fundamental scientific research have been carried out for the knowledge of the history of the Visigothic kingdom of Toledo.

In the archaeological investigations that have been carried out since the 90s of the 20th century in the archaeological site of Pla de ses Figueres on the island of Cabrera, where there was an important monastic community, of which there is evidence since the year 603 AD, A series of structures associated with wine production have been documented and could also have been part of a purple production workshop, a necropolis, active at least at the end of the 6th century and throughout the 7th century, and several related buildings. with work and storage areas.

This monastery, which remnants have been found at 2 Km from the village of Tordomar, and of which some decoration pieces have been preserved, some in Condal style and others in Mozarabic style, is one of the most famous from its period because the monk Florencio accomplished his work there; an exceptional caligraph and miniaturist, author of the bible called “Codex Gothicus Legionensis”, among many others, preserved in the Colegiata of St. Isidoro in León.

El Museo de Arte Visigodo de Arisgotas expone piezas del siglo VII, como fragmentos de frisos, capiteles o relieves, provenientes de los yacimientos arqueológicos Los Hitos y de San Pedro de la Mata.

The church of Santa Clara is the deconsecrated temple of the former convent of the same name, confiscated by Mendizábal. It is a beautiful baroque building in which the center for the Visigothic and medieval collection of the Roman Museum of Mérida is located. The Visigothic section has more than 800 pieces whose origin is both the city and settlements in the surrounding environment, highlighting the quality of those from the Casa Herrera basilica. It is a heterogeneous set in terms of its origin and use, but of great cultural, aesthetic and archaeological value.

El Museo de los Concilios y de la Cultura Visigoda, filial del Museo de Santa Cruz de Toledo, fue creado en 1969 con la misión de exhibir en él cuantos testimonios histórico-artísticos puedan recogerse relativos a dicha cultura de cuyo reino fue capital, centro político, religioso y artístico la ciudad de Toledo.

La necrópolis de Cacera de las Ranas, compuesta por cerca de 200 sepulturas, se encuentra en el término de Aranjuez, próximo al río Tajo, en las inmediaciones de la vía romana que unía Tarraconenses con Lusitania. Su cronología, entre el siglo V y VII, y ubicación, el centro de La Meseta, responde a las características de ocupación del pueblo visigodo.