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El triunfo de la Santa Cruz en la batalla de las Navas de Tolosa, 1212 (Part of the Reconquista)

by Marceliano Santa María Sedano

Which narrates the brave deed of Alvar Núñez de Lara from Burgos in the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

A depiction of the Battle of Covadonga (in a decorated initial from a 12th-century illustrated manuscript of the Liber testamentorum. Pelayo, crowned and holding a cross, is leading at the top.

        The battle that took place in 718 or 722 between the army of Pelagius the Visigoth and the army of the Umayyad Caliphate. Battle was fought near Covadonga in the Picos de Europe, either in 718 or 722. It resulted in a victory for the forces of Pelagius. It is traditionally regarded as the foundational event of the Kingdom of Asturias and thus the initial point of the Reconquista ("reconquest") of Spain after the Muslim invasion of 711.

“Another?” A voice spoke from above the Boy’s head. The Simple Boy looked upward - there a blue skinned man lay perched on an olive branch. “Olive, that is?” He continued. On his brow lay a troubled crown of Fire and Wind intertwined. There was a sly smile of secret knowledge present on his lips. He gazed below.

The Average Simple Boy declined the olive with a wave of his palm. He nodded in the direction he was heading. The blue skinned man looked in that same direction. “You’re heading off?” The Boy nodded. “Do you have a name?” The Boy shrugged. “I’ll call you ‘Careless’?” The Boy nodded. “You know there’s three paths ahead?” The Boy shrugged. “Oh, you’re such a bore.” The blue skinned man descended from his perch and landed in front of the Simple Boy. “One represents a quick descent to your name, so I don’t have to call you Careless. You will go through Space and Time, whatever that means to you.” The Boy did not seem to hear him. He was staring into the dotted blackness which the blue skinned man was describing. “Do you wish to hear about the other two pa---”

The boy threw himself down the path. “Into the Universe he goes...” The blue skinned man rose again above everything and onto his perch, snatching an olive in the process. A minute or an hour passed, for the blue skinned man couldn’t tell or care for it, and a Young Lady came rushing into his sight.

The convent in reference to the Ordination re Christ is a religious construction and roman Catholic monastery in tomar, portugal, initially a templar stronghold automatic the twelfth century. Later the Order of the Knights Templar was broken up in the fourteenth century, the Portuguese greatening of the wish was transformed into the Knights of the Sphere of Christ, which underpinned Portugal's navigational discoveries of the fifteenth century. <\p>

Initially outlined as a bookmark symbolizing the Reconquest, the Convent of the Knights Templar of Tomar (moved in 1344 to the Knights in reference to the Order of Jesu) came to symbolize the polar opposite throughout the Manueline period - the opening parlay of Portugal so different human advancements. <\p>

The Convent of Tomar, initially prepense as a typical landmark of the Reconquest, got to be, from the Manueline period, a backwards image: that pertinent to the seam of Portugal to outside developments. <\p>

Everywhere the second 50% of the twelfth semester, the Knights Templar were called toward Portugal where ethical self were of respectable aid in the Reconquest. Their first and foremost detach was Tomar. At the typeface when, in the fourteenth century, the Order of the Knights Templar was abrogated and supplanted by the Knights of the Order of The life, Tomar obsolete none relative to its imperativeness. Progressive embellishments rendered subliminal self a standout amongst the most prestigious landmarks apropos of Portugal. <\p>

The first church, constructed at the biological death of the twelfth century by the first extraordinary Master of the Templars, Gualdim Pais, was focused around a polygonal cause arrangement of 16 sounds incorporating an eightfold choir with sweep: this is one of the undistorted "rotondas" of Templar structural engineering of which all and sundry excessively few illustrations are still surviving in Middle east. <\p>

Orders were included at diverse periods: that of the cemetery, developed upon the north-east as respects the rotunda within earshot 1430 by Infante Don Henrique, utilized pointed curves of a calm, exquisite Ill-bred style. <\p>

The Manueline ceiling was, as somewhere else, definitive and propelling: my humble self was out of sight King Manuel that Diego de Arruda was blamed to put away for the tremendous choir focused around a square arrange in addition to a tribune raised over the part-room. The heights of these two-sided stories are stamped on the outside by two famous straights, a window and an oculus, whose enormous ornamentation joins together effortlessly Gothic memories and Moorish impacts, offering the all but achieved representation of the Manueline improving style. <\p>