Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1865)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 318
it is, ofcourse, very possible that the Moors, pressed by the necessity ofthe case, would, after their conquest, not only have retainedsome of the existing buildings, but also have re-used the best oftheir materials in their new works. The earliest of the distinctly Moorish buildings is a little… … —now called the church of Cristo do ];i Lnz—wliioh wasstanding at the time ofthe entrance of DonAlonso VI. into the city,on Sunday, May 25,1085. He entered bytlie old Puerta de Yisa-g-ra, and, turning intothis the first mosque onhis road, ordered massto be said, and hung uphis shield there before…
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