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The differences are that the civil buildings were built to live there or to use it for civil proposes. Religious buildings are churches where people came to pray.
 * 1.What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building? **

2.** Make a list of the most important civil buildings and another of the most important religious buildings in the city that you still can see today. ** __Civil buildings__: El Alcazar Real La casa y torre de los Lujanes Plaza Mayor Museo de San Isidro Palacio de los Consejos __ Religious buildings __ Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo Parish of San Andrés Basílica de San Miguel Capilla de San Isidro Capilla del Obispo Colegio Imperial de los Jesuitas Monasterio e Iglesia de San Jerónimo el Real Parroquia de San Ginés

3. **What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for?** -__Casa y Torre de los Lujanes__: The house where the Lujanes’ family lived. - __Museo de__ __San Isidro__: Lujanes’ family lived here. Also weddings and political events take place there. - __La Plaza Mayor__: It was built for public events, such as: bullfighting, public executions, or "faith acts". It was also used as a market. - __Palacio de los Consejos__: At the beginning it was built as the house of the Dukes of Uceda. After it it was used by the Royal Treasury, and as the residence of people from the court. -__El Alcazar Real__: Was were the Kings lived until the fire.

**4.What function did the religious buildings have? What were they used for?** __-The Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo, the Basilica de San Miguel and the Parroquia de San Gines__ were used for praying and for give mass. -__Capilla del Obispo__: it was built to keep the remains of Sant Isidro so people could visit them and pray. -__Monasterio e Iglesia de San Jeronimo__: The monastery was built for the monks, although the Catholic Monarchs kept it as their residence, so the monks were moved to another convent. Anyway, only the church remains, which was used for praying, and for giving masses. - __Colegio imperial de los Jesuitas__ :It was used like a school (to study). - __ Capilla de San Isidro __ : it was built to keep the remains of Sant Isidro so people could visit them and pray. - __Parish of San Andres__:It is use for pray and it was constructed in honour of the first apostol of Jesus.

**5.Who ordered and paid for the construction of the civil buildings? Why?** __El Alcazar Real__: Constructed by the Arabs in the Iberian Peninsula. __ Casa y torre de los Lujanes __ : The house was ordered to built by Alvaro Lujan in 1494 because he wanted to live in Madrid. The Lujan family lived there until the eighteenth century. __ Museo de ____ San Isidro __ : It was ordered to built by the Lujanes family because they wanted a house in the middle of the city and show that they were very wealthy people. __ La plaza Mayor: __ Philip II ordered to cunstruct this square. __ Palacio de los consejos __ : Constructed by Christopher Gomez de Sandoval-Rojas, first Duke of Uceda, to use it as a residence.

**6.Who ordered and paid for the construction of the religious buildings? Why?** __ Iglesia San Pedro el Viejo __ :The temple was rebuilt in the early seventeenth century by the archbishop of Brindisi, Lorenzo Reinoso. __ Basilica de San Miguel __ : don Luis Jaime de Borbón y Farnesio, arzobispo de Toledo. __ Parroquia de San Gines __ : by Diego de San Juan. It was built because the habitants of the Arenal street needed a place to pray. __ Capilla del Obispo __ : King Alfonso VIII. It was built to keep the rests of San Isidro. __ Monasterio e Iglesia de San Jeronimo: __ was created by Philip II to welcome the monks of San Jeronimo. __ Colegio imperial de los Jesuitas __ : El conde de Feria, because he wanted to construct a school. __ Capilla de ____ San Isidro __ : It was rebuilt to keep the rests of San Isidro in a better place than they were at that moment. No one knows exactly who commanded it.

**BIG QUESTION** During the Modern Age in Madrid the society was still divided into three states: the nobles and the clergy that continued to be the most privileged classes, and the peasants that were very poor. But with the development of trade a new class emerged in cities: the bourgeoisie. The nobles and the bourgeois, that are rich and powerful merchants, wanted to live in the most important places, usually in the middle of the town, so they commended to build their houses there. In order to show their wealth they built huge buildings like palaces, such as the Casa y Torre de los Lujanes and the Palacio de los Consejos. Also they ordered to make religious schools (Colegio Imperial de los jesuitas), markets, and so on. Catholic Church was the most important state in Madrid. They dominated society and held the power, because they were very rich and they had a very strong influence in the Court. They ordered to build magnificent churches, for example the basilica de San Miguel, to show to the nobles and bourgeois their power and to strike peasants. Churches were the only places where poor people had the chance to see art crafts (pictures, statues). Also to build religious buildings was a way to win followers because churches were so beautiful and luxurious places that people wanted to go there to pray. Kings also wanted to show their wealth and to satisfy nobles and clergy, so they also payed for civil buildings ( like the Plaza Mayor) and religious buildings like the Monasterio de San Jerónimo built so magnificent that even the king and their family lived there.