SANTIAGO

ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
The Romanesque is a religious art, for this reason its main

manifestations will be found in churches and monasteries, it is the first
great international style of the medieval Christian Europe, it takes
place between the S XI-XII and the beginning of the XIII
The buildings are characterized by their austerity, simplicity
and by presenting solid walls
The Romanesque churches have a plant of a Latin cross, with one or
three naves generally, although they can have up to five, being the
largest central. The whole building had great symbolic significance
BODY OF THE CHURCH: WIDE SHIPS, 3 or TRANSEPT: LARGE SIZE (3 OR 5
5. -The central nave: A set of arcades NAVES). NORMALLY WITH ABSIDES
separates the naves and the grandstand, is
TO ENLARGE THE NUMBER OF
covered with a barrel vault
-Naves lateral: aisle and on it the rostrum: ALTARES. ALSO IT WAS USUAL THAT
it is covered with vault of edge THERE WERE TWO COVERS (NORTH
AND SOUTH) TO MAKE EASIER THE
TOWER TRANSEPT PASSAGE OF THE PILGRIMS
CENTRAL AISLE AMBULATORY
LITTLE APSES
SIDE SHIP
PILLARS CROSS THE DEAMBULATORY ALLOWS

AFEET OF THE CHURCH, THE
THE FAITHFUL TO GO TO THE
COVER FREQUENTLY APPEARS
BETWEEN TWO TOWERS, CHAPELS THAT SURROUNDED
SOMETIMES THERE IS ALSO A THE ALTAR WITHOUT
TRANSVERSAL SPACE CALLED INTERRUPTING THE
NARTEX
WORSHIPHIS ORIGIN WAS IN
THE CAROLINGIAS CRYPTS
Each nave ends in
an apse, which is
usually
semicircular
The semicircular arch is
another of the
distinctive elements of
this period. Inside the
arches are supported
by capitals decorated
with biblical scenes or
fantastic animals,
columns or pillars
support the arcades
The barrel vault constituted by a
succession of arches of half a point
supports the weight of the roof, but
its weight makes the walls have to be
thicker, to support the weight,
buttresses are built inside and outside
The result
was a very
solid
building,
with few
bays. This
contributed
to prayer and
withdrawall
THE ROMANIC BUILDINGS
CONCENTRATE THE DECORATION IN
COVERS CORNERS AND CAPITELS,
THE DOORS HAVE APPEARANCE, THE
SPLAYED ARCH OF THE DOOR HAS A
TYMPANUM THAT REINFORCES WITH
A CENTRAL SUPPORT DENOMINATED
MULLIUM, THE DECORATION HAS
CLEAR DIDACTIC FUNCTION
BELL
In Santiago de Compostela we can find all
TOWERS the characteristic elements of the
Romanesque churches
APSE
TYMPANUM MULLION CHAPEL LITTLE APSELS

THE CATHEDRAL THAT CULMINATES THE ROMANESQUE IN THE
IBERIAN PENINSULA IS SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, FOLLOWS THE
MODEL OF THE EUROPEAN PILGRIMAGE CHURCHES
SANTIAGO IS THE FIFTH SANTA FE
AMONG THE CHURCHIES OF DE
PILGRIMAGE, ITS CONQUES
PRECEDENTS ARE: SAN
MARTIN DE TOURS, SANTA
FE DE CONQUES, SAN
SATURNIN DE TOLOUSE AND
SAN MARCIAL DE LIMOGES
SAN SATURNIN DE
TOLOUSE
SAN
MARCIAL DE
LIMOGES
SAN MARTIN
DE TOURS
characteristic plant of
the pilgrimage
churches: Three naves
in the central floor, a
large transept also with
three naves with
semicircular chapels
and a ambulatory with
radial chapels
ON THE SIDE SHIPS AND THE TRANSEPT
SQUARE A TRIBUNE THAT CONTRARES
THE PUSHING OF THE CANYON BOVEDES
OF THE CENTRAL SHIP PERMITTING A
SPACE FROM WHICH THE PILGRIMS
COULD TRANSIT WITHOUT INTERFERING
THE WORSHIP, THESE TRIBUNES ARE
COVERED WITH FOURTH SPHERE BEDS
22 THE VAULT IS SUPPORTED IN
PILLARS OF SQUARE BASE
LA NAVE CENTRAL SE CUBRE CON BOVEDA AND CIRCULAR THAT
DE CAÑON Y TIENE CASI 22 M DE ALURA ALTERNATE
ABOUT THE TRANSEPTO A

GREAT CIMBORRIO IS
ELEVATED
In 1168
Fernando II hires
Master Mateo to
CRYPT finish the works,
this designs the
crypt on which
the last section
of the naves and
the portico
between the two
towers is based,
the crypt serves
to save the
unevenness of
the ground and
on it rises the
great western
façade behind
which is the
The building was designed with nine towers that gave it an accentuated aspect of
strength of faith. Those of the western façade were replaced in the 18th century by
the facade of the Obradoiro -of the Baroque style-.
The set was
completed with a
set of sculptures of
didactic character
that adapted
perfectly to the
architectonic frame
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND WEBGRAPHY
-https://arteinternacional.blogspot.com/2009/08/arte-
romanico-espanol-arquitectura_3183.html
-http://www.arquivoltas.com/21-lacoruna/01-Santiago-
13.htm
-OLAGUER-FELIÚ, F., El arte románico español. Madrid.
Encuentro, 2003.
-TOMAN, R., El románico. Arquitectura, escultura y
pintura. Colonia. Könemann, 1996.
-https://www.arteguias.com/arquitectura.htm
-http://www.lapresentacion.com/madrid/sec/apuntes/
romanico.pdf

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ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE: SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

The Romanesque is a religious art, for this reason its main

CENTRAL AISLE AMBULATORY

PILLARS CROSS THE DEAMBULATORY ALLOWS

TYMPANUM MULLION CHAPEL LITTLE APSELS

ABOUT THE TRANSEPTO A

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