Raúl+López+-+Webquest

The difference between them is their function; civil buildings were used for things related to the goverment like meetings and also as houses, markets and for leissure, while the religious buildings were used for religious matters like for having a place where people could pray.
 * 1. What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building?**

- Civil: Casa y Torre de Los Lujanes, Plaza Mayor, Museo de San Isidro and the Palacio de Los Consejos. - Religious: Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo, Basílica de San Andrés, Basilica De San Miguel, Capilla de San Isidro, Capilla del Obispo, Colegio Imperial de los Jesuitas, Monasterio and Iglesia de San Jeronimo el Real, Parroquia de San Ginés.
 * 2. Make a list of the most important civil buildings and another of the most important religious buildings in the city that you can still see today.**

- Alcázar Real: - Casa y Torre de Los Lujanes: it was used so that the Lujanes had a place for living. also in this building, Francis I was a prisioner. - Plaza Mayor: firstly it was used as a bullring, and later it was used as a market. - Museo de San Isidro: it was used as a home for the Lujanes. - Palacio de Los Consejos : Charles II's mother lived there until her death.
 * 3. What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for?**

- Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo: it was used for praying. - Basílica de San Andrés: it was used for praying to God, to the Virgin and to the Saints. - Basílica de San Miguel: it was used for praying and gicing masses - Capilla de San Isidro: it was used for saving the rests of San Isidro, so that the people could go to pray and worship. - Capilla del Obispo: it was used as the pantheon of the Vargas. - Colegio Imperial de los Jesuitas: it was used as a school for studying grammar, rhetoric and theology. - Parroquia de San Ginés: it was built so that the people had a place where they could pray to their God.
 * 4. What function did the religious buildings have? What were they used for?**

- Casa y Torre de Los Lujanes: it was ordered to built by the Lujanes because they wanted a place to live. - Plaza Mayor: Philip II ordered its counstruction. - Museo de San Isidro: the Lujanes ordered its construction for having a place where to live. - Palacio de los Consejos: the Duke of Uceda ordered its construction because he'd live there.
 * 5. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the civil buildings? Why?**

-** Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo: Lorenzo Reinoso rebuilt it for having a place to pray. - Basílica de San Andrés: - Capilla de San Isidro: José de Villarreal was the bos of te construction. - Basílica de San Miguel: - Capilla del Obispo: Alfonso VIII ordered its construction fot making a pantheon of the Vargas. - Colegio Imperial de los Jesuitas:San Francisco de Borja ordered its construction for having a place to study. - Parroquia de San Ginés: Jose Luis Marín ordered its construction for having a place where people could pray. THE BIG QUESTION __
 * 6. Who ordered and paid for the construction of the religious buildings? Why?
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Considering the buildings that you have studied, write a small composition (20 lines) in which you explain:**
 * 1. In what ways society organized in Madrid during the Modern Age?**
 * 2. What did the people who built the buildings hope to show with their structures?**
 * 3. What role did religion play in 16th and 17th century society? Was it a private and personal matter? Or, was it related to social status?**
 * Give your personal opinion, but support it using the buildings and exampled what you have studied to defend your ideas.**

The society in Madrid, during the Modern Age was organised in different states, that were the Nobles, The Clergy and the Workers. Each one had different privileges. The nobles didn't pay taxes and the could be on politics, the clergy didn't pay taxes and the workers didn't have any privilege. Due to this organisation, the nobles were in the highest positions in politics. Some people of the workers, the bourgeoisie, had a lot of money but they couldn't be in politics. The buildings were mainly ordered to built by the nobles so they tried to show their importance and their privileges to the population. Nobles wanted to show to the rest of the people that without them, they'd not have any building where for example pray like the Parroquia de San Ginés. They wanted to show how rich were they so the built big palaces and churches like the Alcázar or the Basílica de San Miguel. Religion played an important role in the society. I think it was related to the social status, the clegy was a social status and they had privileges, but maybe they were less important than the nobles from their point of view because the nobles had more privileges like being in politics. A lot of buildings were built so that the people had a place were they could pray to God. Important religious people also wanted to show their importance in the lifes of the population so they built big, beautiful and smart religious buildings like the Parroquia de San Ginés or the Basílica de San Andrés. I think that nobles and clergy wanted to show who of them was more important for the population, the nobles built a lot of luxury palaces and other buildings to show their wealth and the clergy built parishes or churches to show to the people that God was the most important thing in their lifes. The buildings made by the nobles had a lot of luxuries in their interior, everything was of " first class ". The religious buildings were also luxurious because some of them were used by the nobles as their house.