Comparing land and skyscapes in the three main manorial-conquered lands of the Canary Islands
María Florencia Muratore,
Alejandro Gangui,
Juan Antonio Belmonte
et al.
Abstract:This work is a study of the relationship between astronomy and landscape focused on the orientation of Christian churches of the three main Manorial (Señorío) Islands of the Canary archipelago (Spain): Lanzarote, La Gomera and Fuerteventura. As a background, we have the information provided by the texts of early Christian writers, which imposed that churches should be oriented towards the east.
We carried out a comparative study between these islands to verify if the orientation patterns of the temples keep an… Show more
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