Didactical route in Kraków
This route includes some of shrines, which represent urban heritage as a lantern of Deaths. They are witness of what people believed in.
Lantern of Deaths
It is located in Krakow's Park (one of the biggest urban park). It includes some Saints sculptures.
These objects show the history of beliefs of local people.
Time duration: few minutes (40 minutes to the next shrine)
Lantern of Deaths
It is located near to Carmelitan Monastery, place the place where the hospital used to be. It includes Jesus image and sculpture.
These objects show the history of beliefs of local people.
Time duration: few minutes (10 minutes to to the next shrine).
Ghotic lantern of death
One of the oldest shrine in Kraków. It is located near St Nicolas Chruch (Kopernika Street no. 9).
These objects show the history of beliefs of local people.
Time duration: few minutes (20 minutes to the next shrine).
Lantern of Daeth
It is located neraby Wawel Hill. It includes Jesus relief and, as one and only, retains its original function as a lantern.
These objects show the history of beliefs of local people.
Time duration: few minutes ( 20 minutes to the next shrine).
Dębniki pole
It is located on the border between two former villages - Dębniki and Ludwinów. It includes a Holy Mary sculpture and image.
These objects show the history of beliefs of local people.
Time duration: few minutes (10 minutes to the next shrine).
Ludwinów lantern of Deaths
It is located on the crossroads. It include Jesus image (Jesus, I trust in You).
These objects show the history of beliefs of local people.
Time duration: few minutes.
Didactical route in Madrid
This route includes some of churches, which represent urban heritage and bravados of Roman Catholicism impact on city lanscape.
San Jerónimo el Real de Madrid
San Jerónimo "el Real", popularly known as "Los Jerónimos", was one of the most important monasteries in Madrid. Next to it was the so-called Cuarto Real, later expanded as the Buen Retiro Palace during the reign of Philip IV. Of the primitive building, the church and a cloister remain today, behind the Prado Museum. The cloister suffered progressive deterioration throughout the 19th century and after an agreement with the ecclesiastical authorities, it was recovered and incorporated into the Prado Museum as part of the extension designed by the architect Rafael Moneo. Due to its current exterior appearance, the cloister is popularly known as "Moneo's Cube". These object represent a urban heritige, where Roman Catholicism has a huge impact on city improvement.
Time duration: 20 minutes (35 minutes to the next object).
Church of Saint Sebastian
The name arises from a devotional chapel (ermita) which was found along the route to the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de Atocha, founded in 1541. The first architect around 1550 was Antonio Sillero, who also finished the Chapel of the Sagrado Corazón. This church like that of San Luis conserved for years the rights of asylum for those escaping official persecution. More chapels and enlargements were added by Antonio de la Tijera, Juan de Bulga Valdelastras, and Juan de Obregón between 1595 and 1598. The tower was built in 1612 by Lucas Hernández. During the Spanish Civil War, the church was sacked by Republican forces, before it ended up being almost destroyed during a bombing raid by the Nationalists around November 20, 1936. This caused many of the works to be transferred to other sites. For example, the icon of San Blas was moved to the convent of San Jerónimo el Real). The church was rebuilt in a different orientation by Francisco Íñiguez Almech between 1943 and 1959. In 1969, it was declared a "Bien de Interés Cultural" in the category of monument.
These object represent a urban heritige, where Roman Catholicism has a huge impact on city improvement.
Time duration: 20 minutes (1 hour to the next object).
Catedral de la Almudena
Catholic church in Madrid, Spain. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid. The cathedral was consecrated by Pope John Paul II in 1993.
When the capital of Spain was transferred from Toledo to Madrid in 1561, the seat of the Church in Spain remained in Toledo and the new capital had no cathedral. Plans for a cathedral in Madrid dedicated to the Virgin of Almudena were discussed as early as the 16th century but even though Spain built more than 40 cities overseas during that century, plenty of cathedrals and fortresses, the cost of expanding and keeping the Empire came first and the construction of Madrid's cathedral was postponed. Making the cathedral the largest that the world had ever seen was then a priority. All other main Spanish cities had centuries-old cathedrals and Madrid had its own old churches, but the construction of Almudena only began in 1879.
The cathedral seems to have been built on the site of a medieval mosque that was destroyed in 1083 when Alfonso VI reconquered Madrid.
These object represent a urban heritige, where Roman Catholicism has a huge impact on city improvement.
Time duration: 1 hour (30 minutes to next object).
Real Ermita de San Antonio de la Florida
It is a Neoclassical chapel in central Madrid. The chapel is best known for its ceiling and dome frescoes by Francisco Goya. It is also his final burial place.
The chapel was built in the general location of two prior chapels built in the 1730s, which were on the land of a farm called La Florida. The present structure was built by Felipe Fontana from 1792 to 1798 on the orders of King Carlos IV , who also commissioned the frescoes by Goya and his assistant Asensio Juliá .
These object represent a urban heritige, where Roman Catholicism has a huge impact on city improvement.
Time duration: 30 minutes.