Las grandes empresas arquitectónicas de la primera mitad del siglo XVI en el contexto de la conquista e incorporación de Navarra a la... [Important architectural works in the first half of the sixteenth century in the context of the conquest and incorporation of Navarre to the Crown of Castile]

Abstract

The Spanish conquest of Navarre in 1512 was accompanied by a series of political, economic, demographic, social and cultural changes which together drove to a phenomenon of recovery in the field of religious, civil and healthcare architecture. To the works of the fortress of Pamplona we can add the building of exceptional palaces, sometimes with humanist programs carved in their facades, hospitals promoted by generous patrons according to a new culture of charity, the first buildings of town halls, and numerous examples of religious architecture, parish churches, convents and monasteries, as the Dominicans and Franciscans in Pamplona of which this article provides unpublished news.