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===Architecture of Visigothic Hispania===
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[[File:SanPedroNave1.jpg|thumb|Visigothic church, San Pedro de la Nave. 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.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} 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 (king)|Wamba]] to preserve the remains of the martyr [[Antoninus of Pamiers|Saint Antoninus of Pamiers]]. 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]], 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 fifth and eighth 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]].{{sfn|Collins|2004|pp=55–56}}