Spanish Baroque architecture
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Spanish Baroque is a strand of Baroque architecture that evolved in Spain, its provinces, and former colonies.
Royal Palace of Madrid (1738–1892)
Plaza Mayor in Madrid
Estipite in the Basilica of Vera Cruz in Caravaca de la Cruz
El Transparente of the Cathedral of Toledo
Churrigueresque
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Churrigueresque, also but less commonly "Ultra Baroque", refers to a Spanish Baroque style of elaborate sculptural architectural ornament which emerged as a manner of stucco decoration in Spain in the
Spanish Baroque architecture
…against the sobriety of the Herreresque classicism and promoted an intricate, exaggerated, almost capricious style of surface decoration known as the Churrigueresque. Within half a century, they transformed Salamanca into an exemplary Churrigueresque city. As Italian Baroque influences penetrated across the Pyrenees…
Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Churrigueresque Obradoiro façade
Basilica and Convent of Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Lima
The Santa Prisca temple, in Taxco, Mexico.
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