Palace Real Alcazar de Sevilla

In the beautiful city of Sevilla, I had the pleasure of visiting the Moorish palace Real Alcazar de Sevilla King Pedro the Cruel of Castile in 1360s lived and ruled from the Alcazar. He employed workmen form Granada and used fragments of earlier Moorish buildings in Seville, Cordoba, and Valencia as according to Josephine Quintero on the Website http://www.andalucia.com/cities/seville/alcazar.htm.
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The gardens are stunning. There are rows and rows of lush flowers and towering hedges. One part of the garden the hedges are shaped in the eight pointed star and in the center are budding flowers.

So many rooms and courtyards are hidden from your sight; you enter one room and view its beauty, not seeing any other room or courtyards. Then you exit the door and see another gorgeous room with its courtyard that contains fountains and gardens. When you think there cannot be any other room more wonderful than the room you are in, behold another exquisite site.

Picture by Marsha J. P. Gonzales

Within the Moorish palace is the room called the Salon del techo de Carlos V. Siglos XIV, XVI. The floors are tile forming ziz zag patterns. The walls are laced with tile. Large window adorned with tile and gorgeous wooden shutters.

In the Capula de Salon de Embajadotes (1427) Diego Ruiz the ceiling is exquisite, with its plaster sculptures stalactites. In the center of the ceiling is the eight point Moorish star. The palace was once laced in blues and greens. Over the centuries, the colors faded, but there are faint indications of the colors.

The Galerias altas del Patio de las Doncellas, Mediados del siglo XVI you can see the stone pillars, columns, plaster molding of indescribable beauty. Along the wall of the court yard palace are plaster molding of poems.

Picture by Marsha J. P. Gonzales