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Aljaferia Castle, Zaragoza City - Muslim Spain makes its mark at the Aljafería, the country's finest Muslim-era edifice outside Andalucía. The Aljaferia was built as a pleasure palace for Zaragoza's Muslim rulers in the 11th century. From the 12th century Zaragoza's Christian rulers made alterations, and in the 1490s ...
Mihrab (prayer room), Zaragoza City - Also opening off the northern porch is a small, octagonal oratorio (prayer room), with a magnificent horseshoe-arched doorway leading into its mihrab (prayer niche indicating the direction of Mecca).
The finely chiselled floral motifs, Arabic inscriptions from the Quran and pleasingly simple ...
Patio de Santa Isabel, Zaragoza City - Inside the main gate, cross the rather dull introductory courtyard into a second, the Patio de Santa Isabel, once the central patio of the Muslim palace.
Here you are confronted to north and south by the exquisite interwoven arches typical of the opulence and geometric mastery of Muslim ...
Troubadour Tower, Zaragoza City - The oldest construction of the Aljaferia is called Torre del Trovador (Troubadour Tower). The tower received this name from Antonio Garcia Gutierrez’s 1836 romantic drama The Troubadour. The drama was converted into a libretto for Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Il trovatore in 1853.
The ...
Zaragoza City - Zaragoza, the capital of Aragon, has all the attractions of a modern, populous city with excellent avenues, such as that of Independencia, Sagasta, Gran Via and squares, such as that of Paraiso, Los Sitios... The Zaragoza's appeal lies in the fact that it has been left relatively untouched by ...