During the caliphate of West, the Hebrew community lived a period of brilliance, doctors, humanists, managers and merchants were very important in the development and maintenance of the Moslem condition state. [view picture]
JEW'S
STREET
Connects Almodovar's door placed in the former wall with Maimonidas's square.
It is surrounded by a neighborhood of narrow white alleys where they open the
courts full of flowers, the squares with fountains and the bends full of captivation. [view
picture]
"EL
ALCÁZAR DE LOS REYES CRISTIANOS"
Built on a part of the lot that former was occupying the Palace Califal, the
palace
fortress was begun to build in 1328 by Alfonso's XI mandate, under projects
inspired
by the Gothic-Christian procedure remaining only the western original
wall. [view
picture]
THE
MOSQUE
In the year 785 they begin the works of construction of the mosque in what
it was a small cenobro visigodo in the high of a promontory, to the shores
of the
Guadalquivir. This Mosque constructed in successive phases under the government
of the Omeyas, is the only Aljama preserved in Spain and one of the biggest of
the world. [view
picture]
THE
SYNAGOGUE
Constructed in 1315 for the architect Isaac Moheb it is the only Jewish temple
preserved in Andalusia. It is of Mudejar style, with a delicate height of
plaster-work of great beauty combining the inscriptions hebraicas with geometric
and floral decorations. Was declared in 1885 as National Monument. [view
picture]
MÂDINAT
AL-ZAHRÂ.
The current archaeological deposit was in the S.X the most beautiful and
important city of the world. Ordered to construct in the year 936 for, Abal
al-Rahmân. It had the administration and the mint. Nowadays there remain
the restored dependences of the Rich, Lounge its columns and arches of horse-shoe
and placed in the center of the complex. This Lounge was destined to the solemn
hearings. [view
picture]
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