The Alcazar Palace and Gardens are the most precious gems of the city of Seville. The details of the vaults of the entrance to the Salon des Ambassadeurs are a marvel of beauty, finesse and detail. I was speechless! My preference goes to the buildings themselves such as the Lion Gate, the Mudejar Palace, the Gothic Palace or the Patio des Demoiselles. After this visit, it is good to stroll through the palace gardens, the entrance to which is included in the price of the visit. In the Muslim world the color green and by extension gardens are associated with paradise.

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Willem VS

November 6, 2024

The Real Alcázar de Sevilla is a magnificent royal palace and one of the most impressive tourist attractions in the city:
The construction of the Alcázar began in 913 under the direction of Abd-ar-Rahman III, the first Caliph of Al-Andalus. The palace is a perfect blend of Moorish, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architecture.
The Patio de las Doncellas is one of the most iconic places in the Alcázar, with a beautiful pond in the middle and sunken gardens.
The palace is one of the best examples of Mudéjar architecture, a style strongly influenced by Moorish culture. It is probably the oldest royal palace in Europe still in use.
The Alcázar, together with the Cathedral of Seville and the Archivo General de Indias, has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.

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January 13, 2022

The oldest Royal Palace in use in Europe. The New Alcázar of the Abbadis, the rulers of Seville and their surroundings during the 10th century, would later be added to the Umayyad government palace of the 10th century. This Palace of al-Mubarak, the Blessed, was already the center of official and literary life. of the city, with the poets, such as the sovereign al-Mutamid, who laid the foundations for other human activities, and its legends that are today part of the history of Seville. Later the Almoravids would close the space of government, extending it to the Guadalquivir. The Almohads, in the 12th century, completed the works from the Arab period with other buildings of which we still have remains that constitute a unique example in the world. The Casa de la Contratación for example.

The Castilian conquest of the territory in 1248-49 gave the Real Alcázar the condition that remains to this day: seat of the Crown and area of municipal power of the city. Palaces such as the Gothic Palace, in which Alfonso . The Mudejar Palace of Pedro I, in the middle of the 14th century, brings back ancient Mediterranean conceptions in an Arabic version, when al-Andalus was already an entity dominated by the Crown of Castile.

To this architectural framework must be added the elements that give life to the Real Alcázar of Seville at all times: the new uses of the spaces, the gardens, the water that appears in every corner, in a kind of compensation for the Guadalquivir to which he was taking away the space. And the groups and people who gave life to buildings and constructions at all times and who populated the air that still continues to flow from Puerta del León to Puerta del Alcoba, over the Tagarete stream, hidden today in the landscape that saw the birth of the current Real Alcázar eleven centuries ago. alcazarsevilla.org

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