Treasure of Guarrazar pieces, a masterpiece of precious metalwork dating from the High Middle Ages. Gold, precious stones. 7th c. Madrid, Spain

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Treasure of Guarrazar, a masterpiece of precious metalwork dating from the High Middle Ages. Guadamur, Province of Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, is an archeological find composed of twenty-six votive crowns and gold crosses that had originally been offered to the Roman Catholic Church by the Kings of the Visigoths in the seventh century in Hispania, as a gesture of the orthodoxy of their faith and their submission to the ecclesiastical hierarchy.

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Size: 4608px × 2804px
Location: National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. Spain
Photo credit: © ruelleruelle / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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