Places to see in ( Andalusia - Spain ) Madinat Al Zahra
Places to see in ( Andalusia - Spain ) Madinat Al Zahra
We are in the year 400 of the Hegira, 1010 of our era. On the southern slopes of Jebel al-Arus, the Bride's Mountain, the marble, jasper and precious metals of the city of Madinat al-Zahra gleam in the morning sun among silver-leafed olive groves.
Bronze griffins, lions and horses pour mountain water into thousands of marble fountains. In the shade of cypresses and palm trees and around huge reception halls, dream gardens form multi-coloured carpets, mixing myrtle and rosemary, oleanders and tuberoses, lilies and roses. From the caliph's palace, located on the highest of the three terraces, the view extends over the whole Wadi al-Kabir valley and, in the far distance, five kilometres to the east, the large city of Cordoba can be seen.
But today the scene lacks the usual movement of thousands of civil servants who, until recently, controlled the whole of the administration of Muslim Spain. Succession in the caliphate is not clear and al-Zahra is deeply involved in the violence of a civil war. The city is occupied by rebellious troops of Berber mercenaries. Soldiers camp out in the plush reception halls. Their horses drink from the marble fountains. But they are not going to enjoy the luxuries of palace life for very long. A mob has come from nearby Cordoba and bellows at the gates of the forbidden city claiming their share of the booty. It is not long before the troops react. The first spark ignites. What the fire did not burn at the time was systematically plundered during the course of the following centuries by the Muslims themselves and then by the Christians.
In the fifteenth century, Madinat al-Zahra lost even the memory of its name when it came to be called 'Cordoba la Vieja' (the Old Cordoba). Little by little, the ruins became buried under the mud which winter rains dragged from the mountainside. The more time passed, the more scholars developed serious doubts about the texts which spoke of its splendour, deeming them to be mere products of the imagination of their authors. When the first excavations began in 1910, only a few visible stones were left.
In 936 of the Christian era, a few years after Abd al-Rahman 111 had proclaimed himself caliph, he decided to establish a prudent distance between the court and the turbulent population of the Cordobese capital. In the region west of the city where traditionally the mighty had established their country houses since Roman times, he founded a town which would eventually represent the very centre of power.
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Places to see in ( Antequera - Spain )
Places to see in ( Antequera - Spain )
Antequera is a city and municipality in the Comarca de Antequera, province of Málaga, part of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia. Antequera is known as the heart of Andalusia (el corazón de Andalucía) because of its central location among Málaga, Granada, Córdoba, and Seville. The Antequera Dolmens Site is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Antequera is located 45 km from Málaga and 115 km from Córdoba. The cities are connected by a high speed train and the A-45 motorway. Antequera is 160 km from Seville and 102 km from Granada, which is connected by motorway A-92 and in the near future, by the high-speed Transverse Axis Rail.
Due to its strategic position in transport communications, with four airports located approximately one hour away and the railway running from the Port of Algeciras, Antequera is emerging as an important centre of transportation logistics, with several industrial parks, and the new Logistics Centre of Andalusia (Centro Logístico de Andalucía). In addition, the Vega de Antequera, watered by the river Guadalhorce, is a fertile agricultural area that provides cereals, olive oil, and vegetables in abundance.
The nearby natural reserve of El Torcal, famous for its unstable limestone rocks, forms one of the most important karst landscapes in Europe. Antequera has an extensive archaeological and architectural heritage, highlighted by the dolmens of Menga, Viera, and El Romeral, and numerous churches, convents, and palaces from different periods and in different styles. Antequera played a role in the rise of Andalusian nationalism. Antequera was the site of the drafting of the Federal Constitution of Antequera in 1883, and also of the so-called Pact of Antequera Autonomy in 1978, which led to the achievement of autonomy for Andalusia. Antequera was considered as a possible headquarters of the Andalusian government, but lost the vote in favor of Seville.
Alot to see in ( Antequera - Spain ) such as :
Church Real Colegiata de Santa María la Mayor (1514–1550), a national monument built in a transition style between the late Gothic and the Renaissasance ones - the façade construction used stones from the abandoned Roman town of Singilia Barba, located north of Antequera
Church Real Colegiata de San Sebastián, built from 1548 - originally in Renaissance style, it has a Baroque bell tower and a Neoclassicist interior
Convent of Madre de Dios de Monteagudo (1747–1761) - it has a notable Baroque bell tower
Convento de la Encarnación (1580) - in Mannerist-Mudéjar style
Convent of Belén (early sixteenth century)
Church of San Pedro (sixteenth century), with traces of a previous Gothic edifice
Royal Monastery of San Zoilo, founded in 1500 - in Gothic style, it has been declared national monument
Church of St. John the Baptist (finished in 1584) - it has an austere façade, with a notable Baroque interior
Church of Santiago (1522)
Church of the Carmen (1583–1633), in Mannerist-Baroque style - it has a tre retablos in the main chapel, dating to the eighteenth century
Chapel of the Virgen del Socorro, an isolated small church in the port area - it was built in 1715
Alcazaba
the eighteenth century Palace of Nájera, now home to the Municipal Museum
The bullring, dating from 1848, was rebuilt beginning in 1984, in a style that reflects the city's diverse architectural influences
Arco de los Gigantes (Giants' Arch), erected in 1595 in honour of King Philip II of Spain, and partly constructed of inscribed Roman masonry
The excavated Roman baths may be seen in the southeast part of the city
Roman villa of Estación: (first century bce-fourth century ce)
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Fotografia aerea Zepelin - Arqueologia en Andalucia
Reportaje aereo en el Castillo de Medina Sidonia, Cadiz. Video con imagenes aereas de arqueologia. Realizado por Fotografia Aerea Zepelin.
TANA POR EL MUNDO MUSEO ARQUEOLÓGICO DE MEDINA
Cien años de Administración de las Bellas Artes
08/05/2017. Luis Lafuente Batanero (Director General de Bellas Artes y Patrimonio Cultural), Isabel Izquierdo Peraile y Antonio Amorós Mayoral (Coordinadores-editores de la publicación) Andrés Carretero Pérez (Director del MAN).
Miguel Ángel Recio Crespo, Jesús Prieto de Pedro, Benigno Pendás García, José Guirao Cabrera, Juan Miguel Hernández León y Alfredo Pérez de Armiñán, (ex-Directores Generales de Bellas Artes).
Spain (España) : A-45 Antequera - Málaga
Spain (España) : Road from Antequera to Aeropuerto de Málaga on A-45,A-7,MA-20,MA-23.
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Málaga is a municipality, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 569,130 in 2015, it is the second-most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth-largest in Spain. The southernmost large city in Europe, it lies on the Costa del Sol (Coast of the Sun) of the Mediterranean, about 100 kilometres (62.14 miles) east of the Strait of Gibraltar and about 130 km (80.78 mi) north of Africa.
Málaga's history spans about 2,800 years, making it one of the oldest cities in the world. It was founded by the Phoenicians as Malaka about 770 BC, and from the 6th century BC was under the hegemony of Ancient Carthage. Then, from 218 BC, it was ruled by the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire as Malaca (Latin). After the fall of the empire and the end of Visigothic rule, it was under Islamic rule as Mālaqah (مالقة) for 800 years, but in 1487, the Crown of Castille gained control after the Reconquista. The archaeological remains and monuments from the Phoenician, Roman, Arabic and Christian eras make the historic center of the city an open museum, displaying its history of nearly 3,000 years.
This important cultural infrastructure and the artistic heritage have culminated in the nomination of Málaga as a candidate for the 2016 European Capital of Culture.
Lecture: “Francisco Goya and the Alba Family”
Presented by Dr. Christopher Johns, Norman and Roselea Goldberg Professor of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes began his career as a painter in service to the Bourbon royal family and to a select cluster of noble families, including the Floridablanca, the Osuna, and especially the Alba. Join us for a lecture that will trace the evolution of Goya’s career, with special emphasis on his portraits of the 13th Duchess of Alba. Dr. Johns will begin with the context of the Spanish Enlightenment, which informed Goya’s earlier artistic development, and then discuss the horrors of the French occupation and resulting civil war, which Goya reflected in key works during his forties. The lecture also will pay special attention to Goya’s final isolation in the Quinta del Sordo—the house of the deaf man—where he indulged his darkest thoughts in a series of images unparalleled for their condemnation of the human condition.
September 10
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