The bassin of the Guadalquivir river has played an important role in the occidental civilisation. References in the ancient Greek authors to the kingdom of Tartessos, perhaps the heir of the mythic Platon's Atlantida, is a proof of the existence of an advanced human society in the Guadaquivir's estuary several centuries before the coming of the Phoenician ships to the Iberian peninsula. Once the Roman empire got these temperate occidental lands, great cities like Emerita Augusta and Hispalis (the present cities of Mérida
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Roman sarcophage Works done in the Plaza de las Tendillas discovered the remains of a...
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... and the Nereyd The mosaic representing the god Neptunus and this pretty Nereyd is the...
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The Caliphal Mosque After 45 years of dependence of the caliphate of Damasque, the Omeyan king...
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Western door The emiral period ended in year 929 with the proclaiming of the king...
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Lateral naves Red and white bands of the archs are not painted, but made by alternation of...
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The reception hall However, that should be considered just a legend, and the opinion of the...
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Andalusian capital The influence of the Roman architecture in muslim buildings is evident...
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Wall decoration Wall decoration has been restored in some places of the hall. Such...
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