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DOOR AMERICA RUINS OF SAN ISIDORE

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ERMITA DE SAN ISIDORE RETREAT IN THE PARK

Location:

This historic monument is located in the Parque del Retiro de Madrid, 120 km from their place of origin,

the remains of Avila Church of San Isidoro. It is situated in one corner of the park, near the confluence of the Menendez Pelayo Street and O'Donnell, in the Cerro de los Gatos.

Full architecture:

This church was built on another that housed Avila Romanesque relics of St. Isidore of Seville on his trip to León in 1062.

Previously

was dedicated to San Pelayo. As read in the inscription of the temple bell was built in 1116, but that hood is missing.

to the sixteenth century parish and in the seventeenth century the factory was rebuilt becoming annexed to St. Nicholas Chapel.

After the seizure was his ultimate ruin, was demolished and the remains sold to an individual. In the nineteenth century, Emilio R. Nicolau won the remains of the temple that he built the first State in the gardens of the Archeological Museum, from the Parque del Retiro definitely in 1897.

Building System:

existing ruins today in the Parque del Retiro foman of the Historical and Artistic Heritage of Madrid and consist of a wall straight brick masonry with an arch and a circular wall of the same features in two columns with carved capitals. It keeps the door of three semicircular flat archivolts on columns and jambs and the apse with its windows and pilasters.

Its orientation is incorrect because the apse points south instead of east, as is obligatory in a building of medieval origin.

Although the whole thing deteriorated still be seen carved animal capitals.

Materials:

Like most medieval chapels of Castile and Leon, it was built with granite

Caleño Granite or Stone Bleeding, which is very easy to carve as it undergoes a process of change in quarry. This variety is intermediate between granite and silicified sandstone which is extracted mainly from The Butt (Ávila) , used in monuments of the city of Avila and currently only used in its restoration.

Interventions:

After being transferred from Avila in the nineteenth century and rebuilt in the courtyard of Archaeological Museum of Madrid, these ruins were settled Parque del Retiro in Madrid in 1897. In 1999 were restored by HPLC Group, a company specializing in the restoration and rehabilitation of buildings and monuments with conditions that must be addressed by specialists.

legal status of the building:

The hermitage of San Isidoro was bought by an individual after taking into ruin poc or after the seizure of Mendizabal. Later in the nineteenth century gave the remains of the church to the state and is now part of Historic and Artistic Heritage of the City of Madrid. It was therefore the institution who determined the basis for the restoration of the ruins of San Isidoro de1999 in a Government Commission.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

http://www.astragalo.net/madrid/retiro.htm
http://olmo.pntic.mec.es/ ~ mdem0011/otras.htm
http://www.amigosdelromanico.org/inventario/inv_romanico_madrid.htm
http://www.arteguias.com/romanico_museo.htm
http://www.siemcalsa.com/web/La_Piedra_en_Castilla_y_Leon-web.pdf

HELENA PEREZ CALVO