Architectural Styles
Isabelline Gothic
Alt names / subperiods
Timeline
Distinguishing Features
Geographic Presence
Spanish Gothic
Gothic-Renaissance
Gothic Mudejar
Reign of Isabella I of Castile & husband Ferdinand II of Aragon
1474-1516
- Blend of gothic & Renaissance
- Elaborate Ornamentation
- plateresque details— mimicking the work of silversmiths
- Large Windows with Tracery
- variety of materials and colors
- local stone
- bright tiles
- Spain
Common Building Types
Landmark buildings
Historic Accommodation Types
Accommodation Examples
- Cathedrals
- palaces
- chuches
- monasteries
- Cathedral of Toledo
- Royal Palace of Madrid,
- Burgos Cathedral,
- Cathedral of Salamanca,
- Monastery of San Juan de los Reyes Toledo
- Church of Santa María la Mayor Tordesillas,
- Cathedral of Granada
- Alcázar of Segovia
- Mesón (inn)
- Posada (urban & roadside lodging house)
- Venta (rural roadside inn)
- Albergue / pilgrim hostel
- Hospital / hospicio (charitable lodging + care)
- Monastery/convent guest lodging
- Merchant lodging + storage (urban trade lodging near markets & city gates)
- Palaces and noble houses (Elite hospitality)
- Hospital de la Santa Cruz (Toledo)
- Hospital of Santiago / Hospital de Santiago Apóstol (Úbeda, Jaén)
- Santo Domingo de la Calzada pilgrim hospital tradition (La Rioja)
Landmarks
Original Accommodation
Adapted Visitor Accommodation
Parador de Plasencia (Extremadura)
Parador de Santo Domingo de la Calzada (La Rioja)
Parador de Santiago de Compostela (Hostal dos Reis Católicos)
Hostal de San Marcos (now Parador de León)
Parador de Toledo
Castillo de Sigüenza (Parador de Sigüenza)