{"id":194,"date":"2020-05-27T18:36:17","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T18:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gavilansevilla.com\/en\/?p=194"},"modified":"2021-08-30T15:09:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T15:09:23","slug":"the-alcazar-of-seville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gavilansevilla.com\/en\/the-alcazar-of-seville\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alcazar of Seville"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Royal Palace of Seville, the oldest in Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The place where the monarchy lived and governed.\u00a0Although from the outside it looks nothing like a European royal palace, its walls create a kind of \u2018forbidden city\u2019, in a way that means there\u2019s no guessing what\u2019s inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And this is something intrinsic to Islamic architectural tradition, since it was precisely with the Umayyad dynasty, in the 10th<\/sup> century that the Alcazar began to be built.\u00a0Its use as a royal residence until our time gives it the honour of being the oldest royal palace in use in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But more than this, what makes the Alcazar of Seville unique is there are several different palaces within the same site.\u00a0So, we have the courtyard of the ancient Almohade palace, the mudejar palace, the gothic palace, and recently the discovery of a new one\u2026 the palace of the king Al-Mutamid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of them were built by different monarchs or dynasties, which makes the collection a display of art, history and different cultures. Not counting the unpreserved remains of the Umayyad palace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n