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Alcazar


Alcazar
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Copyright: amos na (anadai) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 81 W: 0 N: 52] (2410)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2006-03-22
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Nikon D 70s, Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S V
Exposure: f/13.0, 1/320 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2006-04-02 17:13
Viewed: 499
Points: 6
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
rIt's easy to be fooled into thinking this is a Moorish palace, some of the rooms and courtyards seem to come straight from the Alhambra. Most of them were actually built - by Moorish workmen it's true - for King Pedro the Cruel of Castile in the 1360's who, with his mistress Maria de Padilla, lived in and ruled from the Alcazar. Pedro embarked upon a complete rebuilding of the palace, employing workmen from Granada and utilising fragments of earlier Moorish buildings in Sevilla, Cordoba and Valencia.

Pedro's work forms the nucleus of the Alcazar as it is today and, despite numerous restorations necessitated by fires and earth tremors, it offers some of the best surviving examples of Mudejar architecture.

Later monarchs, however, have left all too many traces and additions - the most mundane of which are probably the kitchens constructed for General Franco who stayed in the royal apartments whenever he visited Sevilla.
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  • verde Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 279 W: 87 N: 147] (957)
  • [2006-04-02 17:49]

great graphical forms here. I love the color and your untraditional crop. It breaks loads of rules, but I love that. This is really well seen. We have all seen many shots of the alahambra, but never this.

great shot
b

Merci pour la note explicative. Il paraît que Pierre Ier était appelé "cruel" parce qu'il l'éait pour les ennemis de son peuple. Cette photo est des plus simple mais du meilleur effet. On a ainsi un graphisme et des couleurs des meilleurs.

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  • pau Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 149 W: 0 N: 75] (792)
  • [2006-04-03 14:35]

Hola Amos!

Bonito detalle de Alcazar! Me gusta mucho el color tostado anaranjado con que esta revestida la paret. La composición tambien me gusta con la puerta y las tejas con la franja blanca.
Buena idea!
Saludos!
pau

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