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The Santos Juanes church is a 17th century Baroque style church. Until the 18th century was the church of San Andrés College, ruled by the Jesuits. The building is a listed heritage since 1984.

The royal parish of Santos Juanes, or "Church of San Juan del Mercado", has been a National Artistic Monument since 1947. Its origin dates back to 1240, when a church was built on a mosque. The building was then refurbished in the 17th and 18th centuries.

The church of Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas was part of the former Carmelite monastery of San Antón, built in the 17th century. In the 18th century, the church underwent an important renovation, according to the neoclassical canons that prevailed at the time. Much of the Baroque decoration of the interior was removed, a new main altarpiece was installed and the main façade, described above, was remodelled.

The Church of the Holy Martyrs is one of four churches erected after the Castilian conquest in 1487. It has undergone several restructurings that have modified its original Gothic-Mudejar style, including Rococo elements of the eighteenth century.

The church of San Andrés de Cuenca was built in the 16th century under the direction of the architect Pedro de Alviz, assisted by the master mason Sebastián de Arnani. The work was interrupted for a long period until, at the end of the 16th century, Juanes de Mendizábal and his son-in-law, Pedro de Aguirre, resumed the work. The deep crisis that occurred in Cuenca in the first half of the 17th century had a negative effect on the work, which was not resumed until the end of the 17th century. In 1936, the temple suffered serious damage and after the civil war, it was given to the brotherhoods to house their processional floats. The church is now deconsecrated.

The church of San Antón is a Gothic catholic church of the late fifteenth century. Listed monument, it is a symbol of Bilbao to the point of appearing on its coat of arms.

The church of Saint Bartholomew, which dates back to the 12th century, is the oldest church in the town of Logroño. It preserves part of the Romanesque style, in the choir and in the initial part of the tower, and was built during the 13th century, with the development of the Gothic style, with the construction of the magnificent Gothic portal from the 14th century, which contains some Romanesque sculptures that tell the story of the life of the saint and other passages from the Bible.

The church of San Benito is a Gothic catholic church of the twelfth century. The building is, with its historic district, a World Heritage Site.

The church of Sant Esteve is one of the oldest in the city. Consecrated in 1238, it occupies the site of a mosque.

The church of San Gil is a church built in the 14th century in a Mudejar style with baroque restructures carried out in the 18th century. It is classified historical heritage of Spain since 1967.