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Galiana Palace
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The current building, located in what traditionally is called the Huerta del Rey, was rebuilt in the fourteenth century and on the king's palace recreation Taifa Al-Mamun.
It would be a splendid botanical garden and farm amenities him eleventh century, are preserved as contemporary descriptions of luxurious summer palace and its pool, at the centre of which stood a kiosk with fanciful colored glasses.
Here was hosted Alfonso VI of Castile, his exile in Toledo during the fratricidal struggles with King Sancho of Leon II. A year later, killed and his friend Al-Mamun, without worthy heir, the Spanish occupied the palace during the siege of the city. The Almoravids smashed gardens in their attempts to recover Tolaitola, finishing the destruction that Christian troops defeated in Navas de Tolosa. The farm came at the hands of the Empress Eugenia de Montijo, who wanted to restore the palace, but this was not done until 1931, when it declared a historic monument and artistic.
The current palace Mudejar style magnificently restored, albeit with some licenses historicist is a rectangular building with a large room divided into three naves, finished in separate bedrooms. A cross body communicates with inner courtyard craft with each other. A facade gives the Tagus and the other in a pond, which may well take the place of that first capricious pool. The remains of the polychromy of the thirteenth century and plasterwork of the XIV testify that the palace was rebuilt after the Las Navas.
Since the sixteenth century are called today, in memory of those fabulous palaces and gardens to be living in Toledo alficén the beautiful princess Muslim, a legendary king Galafre daughter and wife of Charlemagne. |
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