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Updated: May 12, 2025
In the primitive construction of the building and excepting all later-date additions, of which there are more than enough early Gothic and Romanesque elements are so closely intermingled that one is perforce obliged to consider the monument as belonging to the period of Transition, as being, perhaps, a unique example of this period to be met with in Galicia or even in Spain.
On the other hand, it is generally believed to be an imitation as regards the general disposition of St. Saturnin in Toulouse: a combatable theory, however, as the churches were contemporaneous. Seen from the outside, the Cathedral of Santiago lacks harmony; few remains of the primitive structure are to be discovered among the many later-date additions and reforms.
So great was the slaughter and the loss of lives caused by this defeat, that "for centuries afterward bones and weapons were to be seen in the bed of the river when autumn's heat left the sands bare." This Pelayo was the first king of Asturias, the first king of Spain, from whom all later-date monarchs descended, though neither in a direct nor a legitimate line, be it remarked in parenthesis.
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