"In 1364 Pedro I ordered the construction of a royal residence within the palaces that had been built by the city's Almohad rulers. Within two years, craftsmen from Granada and Toledo had created a jewelbox of Mudéjar patios and halls, the Palacio Pedro I, now at the heart of Seville's Reales Alcázares. Later monarchs added their own distinguishing marks: Isabel I dispatched navigators to explore the New World from her Casa de la Contratación, while Carlos I (the Holy roman Emperor Charles V) had grandiose, richly decorated apartments built."*

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Patio de las doncellas (Patio of the Maidens)

Intricate plaster work

The Crypts

Jardín de Troya

One of the many collonades

Gardens of the Alcázares

Fresco in the Gardens