Buildings in North Spain/Portugal between 7th and 11th Century

[NurgleHH]

Italeri do a few kits that are 1/72 or 1/76 (I forget which) that might be of some use?

Darrell.

Hi Darrell,

didn't find them at the italieri-website. Any source???

Greetings Dirk

[NurgleHH]

Indeed. The only ones easy to find are the dark ages normans, saxons and vikings.
If you have info regarding the ones used by the visigoths, goths, vandals take some ideas from them for the 7th and 8th centuries. They shouldnt be so diferent.

I think in the north of spain and portugal they began early with buildings of stone. But you are right, no manufacturer is doing something else than vikings, saxon or normans. Sad.

[Atheling]

Hi Darrell,

didn't find them at the italieri-website. Any source???

Greetings Dirk

Right here:

http://www.italeri.com/

Their models are usually available in most model shops.

Darrell.

[rumacara]

So far the only ones that might do are the GB dark ages buildings of stone although no windows on them.
Also their church woulnt be too out of place.

As Darrell pointed, Italery church would be a nice piece of terrain. The only thing i would change is the size of the door.

[Atheling]

As Darrell pointed, Italery church would be a nice piece of terrain. The only thing i would change is the size of the door.

Yes, that would be a very good plan as the kits really do have small doors and windows from what I remember.

Darrell.

[NurgleHH]

Maybe I'm too much influenced by celtic hut, but I think the buildings were more round. Not churches, but living houses.

[Suber]

Pre-Romanesque architecture has some reasonably preserved examples all over northern Spain. First example that comes to mind is a former palace, later turned into a church and hence known as Santa María del Naranco:



And its adjacent church of San Miguel de Lillo:



Both of them are in the outskirts of Oviedo, Asturias, and are most probably the best known examples of surviving architecture of the time.

As you can guess, most of the buildings left are religious (here you have the Monasterio de Suso, at La Rioja, quite characteristic)



But if you delve a little, you can find some military or civilian constructions, the most notorious probably being the Torreón de Doña Urraca, at Covarrubias (Burgos):



(The machicolations were later additions, but the structure remains essentially the same).

I'm afraid that, for regular peasants houses, as Rumacara said, common sense is your best ally.