In the beautiful city of Seville, Jane and I had the pleasure of visiting the Moorish palace 'Real Alcazar de Sevilla'.
In the 1360s King Pedro the Cruel of Castile with his mistress Maria de Padilla, lived and ruled from the Alcazar. He employed workmen from Granada and by using fragments of earlier Moorish buildings in Seville, Cordoba, and Valencia some of the rooms and courtyards seem to come straight from the Alhambra and it offers some of the best surviving examples of Mudejar architecture.
In more recent history General Franco stayed in the royal apartments whenever he visited Seville.
Within the Moorish palace there are many salons. Some floors are tiled forming ziz zag patterns. There are large windows adorned with tiles and gorgeous wooden shutters. here are a couple of pics from the interior
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The gardens were stunning. There are rows and rows of lush flowers and towering hedges. The ornate tiled benches were a welcome resting place (as you can see in my previous post) as we spent the afternoon enjoying the midday heat. At the front of the palace was this fabulous walled and fountained area set within a pond abundant with fish and ducks.
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Skimming the water and darting amongst the ducks were these huge fish.
I took a little 55 second video of them..I thought you may like to see it..refreshing to see after a hot day.