The Visigothic World: Explore Cities, Churches and History
Explore the Visigothic world through royal towns, stone churches and early Christian complexes in Spain and Portugal. The collection includes standing arches and carved friezes as well as excavated palace, basilica and burial plans.
Use the map to find sites and read about their surviving buildings. Related reading compares Visigothic and Roman architecture, examining continuities and changes in the early medieval west. Individual site articles explain where earlier buildings or later alterations form part of the remains.
Explore Visigothic sites
Explore Visigothic sites in Spain and Portugal, from the royal town of Recópolis to stone churches, carved sanctuaries, baptisteries and burial grounds.
Daily life
Daily Life in the Visigothic Kingdom
Explore Visigothic households, villages, meals, clothing, worship, travel and care through excavated homes, legal rules and monastic life.
- Clothing and Personal Adornment in the Visigothic Kingdom
- Family, Marriage and Property in the Visigothic Kingdom
- Food and Diet in the Visigothic Kingdom
- Healing and Care in Visigothic Iberia
- Homes, Towns and Villages in the Visigothic Kingdom
- Travel, Hospitality and Pilgrimage in the Visigothic Kingdom
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History and society
Visigothic History and Society
Explore how Visigothic kings governed from Gaul and Toledo through courts, local elites, law, churches, rural estates and writing from the fifth to eighth centuries.