About Mezquita-Iglesia de El Salvador, Toledo
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The Mezquita-Iglesia de El Salvador is a church in Toledo, Spain completed in 1159.
Although the church is small, it is an exceptional building, because it was the site of 4 successive constructions, one on other and so on, It's a 12th-century church built on an 11th-century Taifa mosque, which was an expansion of a 9th-century Umayyad mosque and in turn on a Visigothic religious building. Also these civilizations reused 2nd-century Roman elements.
Have to say that is very-usually at the al-Andalus territory that Muslim liked to build on Visigothic buildings.
The large number of Visigothic decorative reliefs forming friezes and Roman cornices embedded in the walls is surprising.
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Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, España, 45002
