Editing Visigoths (section)

== Architecture ==
[[File:SanPedroNave1.jpg|thumb|[[San Pedro de la Nave]], a Visigothic church in Zamora, Spain]]
During their governance of Hispania, the Visigoths built several churches in the [[basilica]]l or [[cruciform]] style that survive, including the churches of [[San Pedro de la Nave]] in El Campillo, [[Santa María de Melque]] in [[San Martín de Montalbán]], Santa Lucía del Trampal in Alcuéscar, Santa Comba in Bande, and [[Hermitage of Santa María de Lara|Santa María de Lara]] in Quintanilla de las Viñas.{{sfn|Galeano|2016}} The Visigothic [[crypt]] (the Crypt of San Antolín) in the [[Palencia Cathedral]] is a Visigothic chapel from the mid-7th century, built during the reign of Wamba to preserve the remains of the martyr [[Antoninus of Pamiers|Saint Antoninus of Pamiers]], a Visigothic-Gallic nobleman brought from Narbonne to Visigothic Hispania in 672 or 673 by Wamba himself. These are the only remains of the Visigothic cathedral of Palencia.{{sfn|Salvador Conejo, ''Cripta visigoda de San Antolín''}}

Reccopolis, located near the tiny modern village of [[Zorita de los Canes]] in the [[province of Guadalajara]], Castile-La Mancha, Spain, is an archaeological site of one of at least four cities founded in [[Hispania]] by the Visigoths. It is the only city in Western Europe to have been founded between the 5th and 8th centuries.{{efn|According to E. A Thompson, "The Barbarian Kingdoms in Gaul and Spain", ''Nottingham Mediaeval Studies'', '''7''' (1963:4n11), the others were (i) ''Victoriacum'', founded by Leovigild and may survive as the city of [[Vitoria-Gasteiz|Vitoria]], but a twelfth-century foundation for this city is given in contemporary sources, (ii) ''Lugo id est Luceo'' in the [[Asturias]], referred to by [[Isidore of Seville]], and (iii) ''Ologicus'' (perhaps ''Ologitis''), founded using [[Basques|Basque]] labour in 621 by [[Suinthila]] as a fortification against the Basques, is modern [[Olite]]. All of these cities were founded for military purposes and at least Reccopolis, Victoriacum, and Ologicus in celebration of victory. A possible fifth Visigothic foundation is ''Baiyara'' (perhaps modern [[Montoro]]), mentioned as founded by Reccared in the fifteenth-century geographical account, ''[[Kitab al-Rawd al-Mitar]]'', cf. José María Lacarra, "Panorama de la historia urbana en la Península Ibérica desde el siglo V al X," ''La città nell'alto medioevo'', '''6''' (1958:319–358). Reprinted in ''Estudios de alta edad media española'' (Valencia: 1975), pp. 25–90.}} The city's construction was ordered by the Visigothic king [[Liuvigild]] to honor his son [[Reccared II|Reccared]] and to serve as Reccared's seat as co-king in the Visigothic province of [[Celtiberia]], to the west of [[Carpetania]], where the main capital, Toledo, lay.{{sfn|Collins|2004|pp=55–56}}