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Originally a Gothic-Mudejar church, the church of Santa María la Mayor in Híjar (Province of Teruel, Spain) featured a polygonal apse with exterior buttresses and a single nave consisting of one section covered by a ribbed vault. Although there were renovations in the 16th and 18th centuries, the building's construction started in the 14th century.

The Church of Santa María la Mayor was built in the 16th century and renovated in the 18th century. The nave and the last three parts of the church seem to date from this period, modeled on the earlier style. The church has a rectangular ground plan, three aisles and a straight head to the east, in keeping with the style of the so-called "hall churches".

The church of Santa María la Real was built between the 15th and 16th centuries. The current church is built on the site of an earlier Romanesque church, of which only the tower remains. The Elizabethan Gothic façade of the church of Santa María la Real was completed, according to experts, between 1514 and 1516.

The origin of its construction dates back to the end of the 12th century, a period from which only the three Romanesque apses built in ashlar stone and the base of the tower located at the foot of the Epistle side remain. This tower was enlarged in brick on two occasions, first at the end of the 15th century in the Mudejar style and then at the beginning of the 17th century in the Mannerist style.

Mudejar church from the 14th century, it is already mentioned as a Romanesque church in 1126. Its interior was renovated in the 17th and 18th centuries in a baroque style, and it has maintained the original structure and the square tower, made of brick, with great analogies with the Mudejar towers. from Teruel.

The church of Santa María Magdalena is a Romanesque church built between the 12th and 13th centuries. The church seems to have been built in two periods: the first of Romanesque influence, the second of Gothic influence. The temple would have belonged to both the Hospitallers and the Knights Templar.

Santa Maria de Cadaqués is first mentioned at the end of the 13th century. The present church, consecrated in 1642, is a reconstruction of the old church which had been burnt down by pirate raids as early as 1444 and 1548. The nave closest to the entrance dates from the 17th century and the Fonda Capella, on the left wall, dates from the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Church of Santa María in Piasca, built in 1172, is one of the best-preserved Romanesque churches in the region of Cantabria.

The old collegiate church of Santa María, known as "La Mayor", is a reconstruction of the 14th and 15th centuries in Gothic-Mudejar style. The first traces of the current building date back to the 12th century. The church was a collegiate church until 1851.

The Igreja de Santa Marinha de Cortegaça is a 20th-century church in the village of Cortegaça known for the tiles panels that decorate its exterior.