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San Salvador de Nogal de las Huertas is a
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Digitalized 3D elements of the monastery of San Salvador de Nogal de las Huertas
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San Salvador de Nogal de las Huertas is a Cluniac
The Cluniac Reforms (also called the Benedictine Reform) were a series of changes within medieval monasticism of the Western Church focused on restoring the traditional monastic life, encouraging art, and caring for the poor. The movement began wit ...
monastery in Nogal de las Huertas
Nogal de las Huertas is a municipality located in the province of Palencia, Castile and León, Spain.
According to the 2004 census (INE
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, Spain.
The architecture is significant as the oldest surviving example of the , the romanesque idiom of the province of Palencia
Palencia is a province of northern Spain, in the northern part of the autonomous community of Castile and León in the north of the Iberian Peninsula. It is bordered by the provinces of León, Cantabria, Burgos, and Valladolid.
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It was founded in 1063 by the Countess Elvira Sánchez, and originally constructed with a central nave
The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...
and a square apse
In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin 'arch, vault' from Ancient Greek 'arch'; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an ''exedra''. In ...
. In the mid-twelfth century, Rodrigo, youngest son of Count Pedro González de Lara
Pedro González de Lara (died 16 October 1130) was a Castilian magnate. He served Alfonso VI as a young man, and later became the lover of Alfonso's heiress, Queen Urraca. He may have joined the First Crusade in the following of Raymond IV of Tou ...
and his wife Eva, became its prior
Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior. In abbeys, a prior would be l ...
, an unprecedented move for a male member of an aristocratic family in Castile.Simon Barton, ''The Aristocracy in Twelfth-century León and Castile'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 192. In the thirteenth century two lateral naves (aisle
An aisle is, in general, a space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces on both sides. Aisles with seating on both sides can be seen in airplanes, certain types of buildings, such as churches, cathedrals, synagogues, meeting halls, parl ...
s) with the pointed arch
An arch is a vertical curved structure that spans an elevated space and may or may not support the weight above it, or in case of a horizontal arch like an arch dam, the hydrostatic pressure against it.
Arches may be synonymous with vaul ...
es typical of the Gothic style
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*Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
**Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths
**Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken b ...
were added.
The monastery passed into private hands in the 19th century. In June 1931 its ruins were declared a ''monumento histórico–artístico'', nowadays called a ''conjunto histórico In Spain, the legal designation ''Conjunto histórico'' (formerly ''Conjunto Histórico-Artístico'' or "Historic-Artistic Grouping") is part of the national system of heritage listing. It is applied to buildings in a given locality. It is typicall ...
''.
Notes
Bibliography
*Herrero Marcos, Jesús. ''Arquitectura y simbolismo del románico palentino''. Ediciones Ars Magna, 1999.External links
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Digitalized 3D elements of the monastery of San Salvador de Nogal de las Huertas
{{coord, 42.3925, N, 4.6453, W, source:wikidata, display=title Monasteries in Castile and León Christian monasteries established in the 11th century Cluniac monasteries in Spain 1063 establishments in Europe 1063 in Europe 11th-century establishments in the Kingdom of León Bien de Interés Cultural landmarks in the Province of Palencia