| The Visigoth kingdom, which had stood for three centuries, had passed its meridian. |
| The Visigoth monarchy, although in many cases hereditary, was in fact elective. |
| His succesor Abderramán II added 8 archways with columns that were used in old Roman and Visigoth monuments. |
| Toledo, the capital of the Visigoth Kings, is the city about which cluster the richest memories of Spain in her heroic age. |
| His reforms attracted some of the greatest scholars of his day, including the Anglo-Saxon Alcuin and the Visigoth Theodulf of Orléans. |
| These sculptures have no parallel in any other peninsular art attributable to the Visigoth period. |
