The Moorish Castle is the name given to a medieval fortification in Gibraltar comprising various buildings, gates, and fortified walls, with the dominant...
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Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake...
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Rock of Gibraltar (section Moorish Castle)
located Gorham's Cave, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Moorish Castle is a relic of Moorish rule over Gibraltar, which lasted for 710 years. It was built...
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Kenneth Hall, was supposed to be a bowling alley which resembled a Moorish Castle. Construction on the structure began in 1963 and was completed in 1980...
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500. The main employer is the local textile industry. The town has a Moorish castle that dates from 1214, and is surrounded by mountains, almond and olive...
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Mini Hollywood attract a modest number of tourists. It is the site of Moorish castle ruins, an old church, and a refurbished Teatro Municipal. The Tabernas...
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Sintra (section Prehistory to Moorish era)
Pedro de Canaferrim, alongside the chapel of the Castelo dos Mouros (Moorish Castle), dating back to the Neolithic, and include decorated ceramics and microlithic...
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Phoenician, Roman, and Moorish civilisations. The foothills of the mountain range behind the town to the south are the site of Sohail Castle, which contains...
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others. The Moorish Castle and other properties in the region act as a principal focus of tourism, the principal activity in this region. The castle is an irregularly...
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Juan", once belonged to a mosque (930) Gibraltar Moorish Castle Gormaz Castle of Gormaz: 10th-century castle, with later modifications Granada Alhambra Alcazaba:...
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century), which has a church designed by a disciple of Antoni Gaudí, the Moorish castle of the Mola, with its unique triangular tower, and the Museum of Modernism...
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originally a Moorish outpost, overlooking the valley. Due to its position between Ronda and Seville, it was a perfect site for a castle to be built to...
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and structures from this period still exist, including the Moorish Castle, parts of the Moorish walls, a bath-house and a subterranean reservoir. Gibraltar...
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including a castle, be built. It received the name of Medinat al-Fath (City of the Victory). The Tower of Homage of the Moorish Castle remains standing...
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Sammezzano (redirect from Sammezzano Castle)
Sammezzano, or the Castle of Sammezzano, is an Italian palazzo in Tuscany featuring Moorish Revival architectural style. It is located in Leccio, a hamlet...
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Manuel and Porta Nova. Local tradition states that, in the castle, there is an enchanted Moorish who, every year, on the night of Saint John's Eve, appears...
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São Jorge, in the municipality of Santa Maria da Feira Castle of São Jorge, a Moorish castle located in the center of Lisbon São Jorge (Arcos de Valdevez)...
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Moorish architecture is a style within Islamic architecture which developed in the western Islamic world, including al-Andalus (on the Iberian peninsula)...
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works began in 1936 with a visit to the Alhambra, a fourteenth-century Moorish castle near Granada, Spain. Escher had visited the Alhambra once before in...
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(787.40 ft) above sea level, lies strategically (the ruins of) the Moorish castle. It was taken from the Moors, during the Portuguese Reconquista in the...
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Fortifications of Gibraltar (section Moorish period)
Homage (now usually called the Moorish Castle, though more properly that name refers to the entire fortified area of the Moorish city) was located at the highest...
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architectural style of the castle is that of medieval Moorish. The castle has a dungeon, a drawbridge and a moat as well. Campbell Castle, Wichita, Kansas, built...
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Cerca Moura ("Moorish Encirclement"). In the context of the Christian Reconquista, the castle and the city of Lisbon were freed from Moorish rule in 1147...
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Tale of Tales (2015 film) (category Films set in castles)
Roccascalegna (appears in the poster with Castel del Monte); Tuscany's Moorish castle of Sammezzano, the towns of Sorano and Sovana (tuff caves); and Lazio...
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v t e Buildings and structures in Gibraltar Grade A listed Moorish Castle Napier of Magdala Battery Nun's Well Parson's Lodge Battery Shrine of Our Lady...
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is by the ruins of the Moorish castle Alcazaba of Badajoz and overlooking the Guadiana river, which flows between the castle-hill and the powerfully...
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whitewashed houses and steep narrow streets leading up to a tenth-century Moorish castle, called 'Castillo de Salobreña' and it is one of its main tourist attractions...
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Mendes da Maia, was responsible for the successful storming of the Moorish castle. The retaking of Óbidos was the final stage in the conquest of the Estremadura...
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include entrance to two of the other major tourist sites on The Rock: the Moorish Castle and the Great Siege Tunnels. Guided tours of Lower St. Michael's Cave...
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Aracena (section Aracena Castle)
on the site of an ancient Moorish castle. The walled enclosure was partitioned inside, with the tower of homage, or castle keep, defending the barrier...
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