Basilica of San Isidoro

The Real Basilica de San Isidoro is a church in León. It was built from the 10th to the 12th century and is considered a masterpiece of Romanesque architecture.

Description

The National Shrine since 1063 burial site of St Isidore of Seville, in the 7th century Archbishop of Seville and most important Visigothic church teachers. Because of the unique ceiling paintings in the National Pantheon is real, called the royal grave chamber, also called " Sistine Chapel of Romanesque art ". The unparalleled in design and condition paintings give an insight into the plastic images and everyday world of the 12th century. In great colors to biblical and everyday scenes, such as a series of monthly pictures show. In the church museum precious pieces of the treasure chamber are exhibited around the reliquary of Saint Isidore from the 11th century.

Doña Urraca cup of

In March 2014, a historian and a historian from Spain published a book in which they put forward the theory that the upper part of, also exhibited in the museum, agate chalice of Doña Urraca of the 11th century had originally been the cup from which Jesus of Nazareth have drunk at the Last Supper. This was kept in the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem before they were transported to Spain for a period of seven hundred years, but later been reworked. The calyx is therefore considered to be the Holy Grail, where it in Europe are around 200 objects alone, of which this is also claimed. The following message on the influx of visitors beyond the scope of the museum. Therefore, the management decided after a few days, the cup for the time being not to show up a more suitable place for the presentation was found. The church historian Diarmaid MacCulloch of the University of Oxford, however, described the solid connection between the cup and the Grail as " idiotic ". It was recognized that the shell came from the ancient times, but nothing more.