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Title
Alcazaba Walls With Trees, Malaga
Artist
Paul Boizot
Medium
Photograph - Digital.
Description
A section of the walls of the Alcazaba, Malaga, Andalusia, Spain, November 2021. Also available in sepia.
An alcazaba (Spanish, Galician), alcáçova (Portuguese) or alcassaba (Catalan) is a Moorish fortification in Spain and Portugal. The word derives from the Arabic word al-qaṣabah, a walled fortification in a city. According to architect restorer Leopoldo Torres Balbás, the Alcazaba of Málaga is the prototype of military architecture in the Taifa period, with its double walled and many fortifications. Its only parallel is the castle of Krak des Chevaliers in Syria.(source; Wikipedia)
According to Arab historians, it was built between 1057 and 1063 at the instructions of Badis, King of the Berber Taifa of Granada. In 1279 the city was conquered by Muhammed II Ben al-Ahmar and became part of the Nasrid kingdom. The renovation of the building on its rocky base gave it a markedly Nasrid appearance. It combines its defensive purpose with the beauty characteristic of an Arab palace and is organised around rectangular patios and spaces around gardens and pools. (source; http://www.malagaturismo.com/en/tourist-resources/detail/alcazaba/6)
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