20th Century religious architecture in Badajoz city (Extremadura)

Abstract

In Badajoz, the provincial capital, a considerable number of new religious temples are erected between 1900 and 2000, with different styles that are the result of historical evolution and that express the tastes of the comitentes. Most of these temples, of good invoice, are built to cover the spiritual needs of newly created neighborhoods. The first examples still have a very strong influence of the predominant historicism and eclecticism during the s. XIX; With the Francoism will be when the interest in religious architecture resurfaces, in principle with an academic and traditional language while the arrival of the theses of the Second Vatican Council will impose visible changes in the conception of new parishes. Some recent examples of our democracy, however, have not opted for the formal quality that characterized the immediately preceding examples, which are the most original aesthetically. We also include those examples made in satellite neighborhoods or settlements dependent on Badajoz.