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=1. What marks the differences between a civil and a religious building?= The difference between a civil and a religious building is that the religious buildings were the places where people went to pray as “ La Parroquia de San Jinés”, and the civil buildings are the places where people live, as the Royal Palace.

Political buildings
-El Museo de San Isidro -Casa y Torre de los Lujanes -La Plaza Mayor  -El Palacio de los Consejos

**Religious buildings**
-Iglesia de San Pedro el Viejo -Basilica de San Miguel  -Capilla de San Isidro  -Capilla del Obispo  -Monasterio e Iglesia de San Geronimo el Real   -Parroquia de San Ginés. -Colegio Imperial de los Jesuitas

Answer the following questions for each of the buildings that you mention on your list.
=Civil Buildings:=

What function did the civil buildings have? What were they used for?
The function of the civil buildings was to aware the nobility, the King and the rich people. __ **Plaza Mayor:** __ It was used to public acts, such as been the market or bullfightings __**Alcazar Real:**__ The place where Kings has lived, the first one was Charles I and the last one living there has been Philip V. **__Museo de San Isidro__:** At first it was a place where people lived, but now it is a museum. __ **Palacio de los consejos** __**:** Used as the residence of peopleof the Court and from the royal treasury.
 * __Casa y torre de los Lujanes__:** The place where Los Lujanes lived.

**What function did the religious buildings have? What were they used for?**
The function of the religious buildings was to have wedings and baptism and to pray for the salvation of the people. __**Iglesia de S.Pedro el Viejo**__: was created to pray, like in a normal church.**__ Basilica de San Miguel :__** Used to pray, it was created in honour of S. Andrés, an apostol**__. Capilla de San Isidro __**:Was created to be worthy of the Boss of Madrid and to deposit San Isidro`s remains and that the people could adore him.
 * __Capilla del Obispo : __** It was created to house the remains of San Isidro Labrador.
 * __Monasterio e Iglesia de San Geronimo el Real: __** At firs it was used by monks to pray, but laeter the royal family used some rooms as rooms of relaxing.
 * __Colegio Imperial de los Jesuitas__**: It was the first school of monks.

**Who ordered and paid for the construction of the civil buildings? Why?**

 * __La Plaza Mayor:__**Philip II of Spain was the one who ordered to built it, but Philip III finished it.
 * __El Museo de S.Isidro__**: It was built by the Lujanes family thy were a noble family settled in the village where only nobles family could live in the capital.
 * __Casa y Torre de los Lujanes:__** This house was built by Álvaro Lujan in 1494, Los Lujanes' family lived there until the XVIII century.
 * __Palacio de los Consejos:__** it was buildby Christopher Gomez de Sandoval-Rojas. Because he wanted a place to live.

Who ordered and paid for the construction of the religious buildings? Why?
__**Iglesia de S.Pedro el Viejo:**__ It was rebuilt in the early 17th century by the archbishop of Brindisi, Lorenzo Reinoso.
 * __Basilica de San Miguel :__** Luis Jaime of Bourbon and Farnesio, archbishop of Toledo ordered its construction.
 * __Capilla de San Isidro __**: We don`t now who constructed it because it is very old.
 * __Capilla del Obispo __****__: __** King Alfonso VIII ordered its construction.
 * __Monasterio e Iglesia de San Geronimo el Real: __** It was ordered to construct by Enrique IV in 1464.
 * __Colegio Imperial de los Jesuitas__**:It was ordered to built by the Count of Fair.

=The Big Question= 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?**
 * 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?

Madrid`s sociaty during the moderm age was still dicided in three estates: The Clergy, The Nobles and The Peasants: The nobles and the clergy were the privileged estates, so the didn't had to pay taxes, if htey did something bad, they could have a fair trail, some of them were very rich, but other were really poor, as for example the monks.They had all the facilities. On the other had, there were the peasants, which were the non privileged estate, this estte includes peasants, workers, craftsmen, bourgeoisie...They were the non privileged estate, so they had to pay taxes and didn`t have any priviledge, even some bourgeoisie were richer than some nobles or clergy. They didn`t had a fair trail. There were more peasants than clergy or nobles, peasants were the majority. The people who constructed the buildings of madrid wanted to show the people that they were reach and that they had power, this was like a reflec of their way of behaving, they wanted to show that they had a lot of power, this is also why they build the so hight. Religion was very important during the 16th and 17th centuries because spain's king was catholic and wanted his people to be catholic. It depended because, some muslims took their religion in private, because if they told something, they were going to be juzged by their religion. But I think that catholics showed they were catholics because it was the religion of the place. Mostly all the religious buildings of madrid are catholic, as Parroquia de San Jinés... Religion was related to social estatus, if you were from Spain it meant that you were catholic, it was very important the religion, for example the clergy, who were one of the most important estates, their obligation was to pray for the salvation of the people. If religion weren`t so important, there were not so many religious buildings in madrid. People belived in religiousthings because the science was not so advanced as now, the took religion as the response of all the questions they had, as for example, who created the earth... So, my final conclusion is that relsigion was very important during the moderm age and it was a thing in which all people velived.