Facade of Peter I Paclace, Seville Alcazar

The Palace of King Pedro I, is the great contribution Mudejar to the Alcazar of Seville (1364-1367). The facade of this great palace unfolds in the Patio de la Montería as a great altarpiece. Responds to Muslims and eventually Byzantines diagrams. It shows a tripartite organization. The central facade, made of stone, is flanked by multifoil blind arches that are prolonged interbreeding and forming "sebka" decoration. A large frieze, where Arabs and Christians elements coexist: schematized decoration inspired in Nature along with the coats ofarms of Castile, Leon and the Order of the Band, separates the two plants. At the upper area runs a gallery with arcades of multifoil arches also organized through a tripartite scheme. A beautiful inscription in Kufic characters carried out in blue pottery said: "The Empire for Allah", and around this words, another inscription, in gotliic characters, affirms "The highest, noblest and most powerful conqueror Don Pedro, by God's grace King of Castile and Leon, has caused these Alcazares and these palaces and these facades to be built, which was done in the year 1402" (1364). The Hispanic era begins at year 38 A.C., so 1364 corresponds tn the Gregorian calendar. The entire façade is sheltered under a huge wooden eave of combed muquarnas.

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