Unfortunately we didn't visit the Medina Azahara, even though not being far from Córdoba, but it's possible to find in Córdoba postcards of the Medina
Medina Azahara |
Medina Azahara is the ruins of a vast, fortified Moorish medieval palace-city built by Abd-ar-Rahman III (912–961), the first Umayyad Caliph of Córdoba, and located on the western outskirts of Córdoba, Spain. It was a medieval Moorish town and the de facto capital of al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain, as the heart of the administration and government was within its walls.
MedinaAzahara - Upper Basilical Hall |
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Built beginning in 936-940, the city included ceremonial reception halls, mosques, administrative and government offices, gardens, a mint, workshops, barracks, residences and baths. Water was supplied through aqueducts. - in: wikipedia