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Sevilla - Alcazar - Mudejar style - Sevilla
Sevilla - Alcazar - Mudejar style
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Alcazar: Sevilla Fortress
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  • This fortress/palace is another must see in Sevilla.

    It is beautiful, with several different sections and large gardens.

    It is still used as a royal palace and some rooms that are reserved for the Spanish royal family can be visited by guided tour (extra cost on top of normal admission price).

    Make sure you wander around the gardens and see if you can find your way through the maze!

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  • Phone: 95 450 23 23
  • Directions: south of the Cathedral across Plaza del Triunfo

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    Alcazar: Royal Fortress - Reales Alcázares
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  • Alcazar view from the Cathedral - Vista desde la C - Sevilla
    Alcazar view from the
    Cathedral - Vista desde la C
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    This palace is a part time residence of the Royal Family, and it is the oldest Royal Palace used in Europe. Noteworthy as it is it not mererly a singular palace but a series of palaces, the product of successive reforms that took place since the Arab occupation. Thus these grounds bring together a perfect symbiosis, a succession of architectural styles, from Islamic to Neoclassical, incorporating Mudejar elements, Gothic, Renaissance, Plateresque, Purist, Baroque and Rococo; all contributing to the magnificence of this landmark. They are present at its beautiful gardens, patios, rooms and tapestries.

    Este palacio es una residencia de temporada de la Familia Real, siendo el Palacio Real en uso más antiguo de Europa. Lo importante del edificio es que no es un sólo palacio, sino una serie de palacios, producto de las sucesivas reformas que han tenido lugar desde la ocupación musulmana. Aquí tenemos una simbiosis perfecta, una sucesión de estilos arquitectónicos, desde el islámico al neoclásico, incorporando elementos mudéjares, góticos, renacentistas, platerescos, puristas, barrocos y del rococó, todo contribuyendo a la grandeza del Alcázar. Están presentes en sus bonitos jardines, patios, habitaciones y tapices.

    Visiting hours - Horario de visitas

    Tuesday to Saturday / Martes a sábados: 9:30-17:00
    Sunday / Domingo: 9:30-13:30

    Price / Precio: 5€
    Sevillanos, -12, students and retired: Free
    Sevillanos, -12, estudiantes y jubilados: Gratis

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  • Phone: 95 450 23 23
  • Directions: Next to the Cathedral and the Archive of the Indies. Junto a la Catedral y el Archivo de Indias
  • Website: www.patronato-alcazarsevilla.es

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    Alcazar: Royal Fortress Gardens-Jadines del Alcázar
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  • Pool of Mercury - Estanque de Mercurio - Sevilla
    Pool of Mercury - Estanque de
    Mercurio
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    Peaceful gardens with flowers and plants that recreate a heavenly setting are adjacent to the palace courtyard . One can appreciate glimpses of islamic, classical and modern environment with the Doña María de Padilla baths, statues of Mercury and Arbour. The New Garden section are modeled after English and Arab-Andalusian landscaping. There is a cultural program which frequently offers events of all types and being one of the richest in the city.

    Junto a los patios del Alcázar hay tranquilos jardines con flores y plantas que recrean un marco inigualable. Uno puede apreciar rasgos de ambientes islámicos, clásicos y modernos con los baños de Doña María de Padilla, las estatuas de Mercurio y el Cenador. La sección del Nuevo Jardín se creó con el estilo paisajista inglés y árabe-andaluz. Hay un programa cultural que frecuentemente ofrece eventos de todo tipo y que es uno de los más ricos de la ciudad.

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  • Phone: 95 450 23 23
  • Website: www.patronato-alcazarsevilla.es

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    Alcazar: Inside Royal Fortress - Interior Alcázares
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  • Courtyard of Maidservants - Patio de las Doncellas - Sevilla
    Courtyard of Maidservants -
    Patio de las Doncellas
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    There are lots of fascinating rooms, corridors and courtyards inside the Fortress. You'll get impressed since you join the palace from the Lion gate. Going straight we arrive to Hunting Courtyard and then to the Mudejar Palace, where there are some of the rooms I show you here (Courtyard of Maidservants, Ceiling Room of Charles V, Ambassadors Room, King's Bedroom, Dolls Courtyard, Ceiling Room of Philip II and Infante's Room) all of them in Mudejar style.
    The other parts are the Gothic Palace (where this tapestry is found), the Court Room, the China house and two more courtyards.

    Hay muchas estancias, corredores y patios fascinantes dentro del Alcázar. Quedarás impresionado desde que entres al palacio por la Puerta del León. Siguiendo recto llegamos al Patio de la Montería, y después, al Palacio Mudéjar, donde se encuentran algunas de las estancias que muestro aquí (Patio de las Doncellas, Salón del Techo de Carlos V, Salón de Embajadores, Alcoba Real, Patio de las Muñecas, Salón del Techo de Felipe II y Sala de Infantes), todas ellas de estilo mudéjar.
    Las otras partes son el Palacio Gótico (donde se encuentra este tapiz), la Sala de Justicia, el Pabellón de la China y dos patios más.

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  • Phone: 95 450 23 23
  • Website: www.patronato-alcazarsevilla.es

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    Alcazar: ALCAZAR PALACE
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  • The construction of the ALCAZAR PALACE or Reales Alcazares, was the work of the conquering Almohads in the principally Mudejar style. Building was begun at the end of the XII century and was concluded in the middle of the following century.
    King Pedro I of Castile made various reforms during the XIV century, in order to adapt it to Christian customs. Later reforms were made by the King Emperor Carlos V.
    At the present time it is kept up by the government, as it is the official residence of the Spanish Royal Family when they are in Seville.
    It still maintains its Moorish style gardens, which were irrigated with water brought along an Aquaduct named Canos de Carmona.

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  • Phone: 95 450 23 23

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    Alcazar: Reial Alcazar - The royal Palace
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  • The Reial Alcazar ( and its gardens) in Sevilla, really matches the beauty of the more famous Alhambra in Granada. Only because it is located in the center of the city, close to the cathedral, it misses the dramatic backdrop that the Alhambra has, with the Sierra Nevada in the background.

    The palace consists of several different parts, but most people will be most interested in the part where most moorish architecture (the so-called Mudejar style) can be found.

    When you have visited the buildings, enter the garden, which is simply superb. What is also special is that they created a covered passage/wall that leads deep into the garden. From the top of this wall you have magnificent views on the garden.

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  • Phone: 95 450 23 23

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    Alcazar: discover the ancient Sevilla: Reales Alcazares
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  • Reales Alcazares or simply the Alcazar is of course one of the must sees of Sevilla. It is an Arabic fortress that has been changed into a palace. Strangely enough it was not built by the Arab people, but by the christian conquerers who copied the Arab style. The Christian monarchs, Alfonso X and Pedro I employed Moorish craftsmen to build the Real Alcazar in the 14th century. This type of style is called "mudejar".
    There are some beautiful patios in the Alcazar, you can find some of them in my Alcazar travelogue.
    And don't forget to pay a visit to the magnificent gardens!

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  • Phone: 95 450 23 23

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    Alcazar: Alcazar Baths
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  • If only they know where they are - Sevilla
    If only they know where
    they are
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    The Alcazar famous baths could be found beneath the Palace main structure, next to the gardens. Intrigued about its actual and quite painteresque name (Baños de Doña Maria de Padilla), I performed some research using my old friend Google. It turned out that the baths are named after Doña Maria de Padilla, the "unsolicited" lover of the conqueror of Sevilla, King Pedro I. I took the liberty of quoting a part of the history:


    "Pedro I's unrequited and unwelcome passion for Doña Maria Fernandez Coronel, an illustrious noblewoman is well known to Sevillian popular history. After the imprisonment and death of her husband, Don Juan de la Cerda, by order of Pedro I, Doña Maria suffered variously at the hand of the Monarch, sufferings which popular myth have enriched and embellished to her greater virtue. Finally to rid herself definitively of Pedro's unwanted advances, Doña Maria deliberately threw boiling oil over her face, producing a horrible disfigurement."


    Sometimes, History could be mush more disturbing than present news...

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  • Phone: 95 450 23 23
  • Website: http://www.aboutsevilla.com/sevilla/history.asp

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    Alcazar: los Reales Alcácares
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  • Palacio Gotico, Real Alcazar, Seville - Sevilla
    Palacio Gotico, Real Alcazar,
    Seville
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    When in Seville you can't miss the Alcázar Palace (los Reales Alcácares). The huge walls surrounding this palace can't easily be overlooked. The construction of the fortified palace was ordered by Abd Al Ramán III in the year 913. Pedro I, "the cruel" , made significant additions to the palace in 1364. He made it one of the most important examples of Mudéjar architecture in Seville.
    Other monarchs that followed added and changed the palace to their own likings.
    The rooms, patios and halls have different architectural styles from Islamic to Neoclassical. Because of it's beauty the palace was chosen as residence by many monarchs over the centuries. It now is the residence of His Royal Majesty Juán Carlos when he visits Seville.
    The gardens and fountains are worth visiting it makes a great strole on a warm sunny day in Seville.
    Take some time to visit the palace because it is huge and there are many areas to discover.
    Open: Tue-Sat 9:30-19:00; Sun 9:30-17:00.

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  • Phone: 95 450 23 23

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    Alcazar: Alcazar
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  • The Alcazar began life as a fort for the Cordoban governors of Seville in 913 and has been enlarged in almost every century since. Seville's 11th century rulers built themselves a palace called Al-Muwarak (The Blessed) in what's now the western part of the Alcazar. East of this, the Almohads added another palace in the 12th century around the Patio del Crucero. Alfonso X replaced much of the Almohad palace with a Gothic one, which has now become the Salones de Carlos V. Between 1364 and 1366 Pedro I created the Mudejar Palacio de Don Pedro partly on the site of the old Al-Muwarak palace. The whole complex was further adapted and expanded by later rulers, who also created the Alcazar's beautiful gardens. The grounds and gardens are huge and impressive, lovely place to relax and take a leisurely stroll whilst wondering to yourself how great it must have been to live in palaces such as these!

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  • Phone: 95 450 23 23
  • Directions: South of the cathedral across Plaza del Triunfo

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