Moorish Court of Christian Kings Alcazar, Cordoba (Spain)

Moorish Court

        It was built in the Middle Age and partially destroyed for building a prison in theThe Moorish Courtyard viewed from the North Wall XIX Century. It has a muslim plan, morisc style, rectangular, known during the Almoravid Period. Its aisles constitute a central cross and in its intersection here is a fountain. Around it there are two pools with fountains and little ladders.
        The gardens are divided into four squared gardens, with less height than in the corridors. In every square there are lemon trees, orange trees, pomegranate, laurel... These were gardens with oriental taste, arrival of Persia. It isBaseboard that retains traces of painting thought that these plants were brought by other people of this country in the past, and they were probably advised and directed by muslims from neighboring cities of Granada, Seville ...
        By the walls there is a wainscot with stucco, decorated with geometrical drawings, using only the red, the black and the rose. The main motives are the badge of Lion and Castile.
        In the East Part of the garden there is a building carriedAccess to the gardens from the Moorish Court out in the XIX Century and it would be used as a prison. In the north there is a façade with a large gallery with vaults and roman archs. The court borders with a wall on the Occidental Part. This wall is decorated with merlons, and connects the Tower of Lions with the Tower of the Inquisition. In the wall there is a Muslim blind pointed arch and a door that is connected to the Alcazar Gardens.
        There is a little column in the middle, found in 1951; it remembers the ancient Roman building, like the Customs or the Attorney and Quaestor Palace. This column is Roman and its capital and upright part is consumed.

Text: J.A.S.C.

Traslated by Sara Moretti