Gloria+castillo-+Webquest

gloria castillo- Webquest

1. What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building? A civil building is use to make meetings, or other official things. But in a religious building never organise any official meeting.

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. Civil: Palacio de los Congresos, Plaza Mayor, Museo de San Isidro, La casa y torre de los Lujanes. Religious: Parroquia de San Gines, Iglesia de San Pedro, Capilla de San Isidro.

3.what function have got the civil buldings?what are their uses? It depens on the building, for example, The Royal Palace was used by the kings to live in it, but nowadays, it is used to make meetins, because the kings doesnt live there.

4.What function have got the religious buildings?what are their uses? They are usedfor pray, go to talk with priests, or make weddings or baptism.

5.Who order build and pay the civil buildings?why? The lords,kings, or rich man, because they wanted more power or popularity. And also for their own interest.

6.Who order build and pay the religious buildings?Why? The Pope, the priests. Because they wanted to be more closed to God, or simply because of the same as the lords and kings in the civil buildings, or for spread religion.

1. In what ways society organized in Madrid during the Modern Age?**
 * Considering the buildings that you have studied, write a small composition (20 lines) in which you explain:
 * 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?**

Society was organized mainly in two states: Nobles and clergy, and citizens. The nobles and the clergy were very powerful and were the ones that oreder the construction of the buildings. The nobles order to construct civil buildings, such as the museum of San isidro, or the house and tower of Lujanes. And the clergy oreder to construct religious ones, like the Capilla de San isidro, or The Parroquia de San Ginés. The principal aim of the construction of civil buildins were to demostrated their power, and to make theirselves more powerful, but the buildings have sometimes their own history, as, for example, The house and tower of Lujanes, who was used for a perios of time as a prison for Francis of France, or the Museum of San Isidro, that was only used for housing the family of Lujanes