Marble Madinat Al Zahra Museu Arqueologico Cordoba

Madinat al zahra is the city that the caliph abderramán iii ordered to be built to show the world the splendor of his caliphate.

Marble madinat al zahra museu arqueologico cordoba.

El delegado territorial de cultura turismo y deporte de la junta de andalucía francisco alcalde ha informado de que este mes de enero la actividad la pieza del mes que se celebra este domingo está dedicada a piezas procedentes de la ciudad califal de madinat al zahra en apoyo a la candidatura de este importante enclave arqueológico como patrimonio mundial de la unesco. It is strategically located at the foot of sierra morena and far from the city of cordoba and its name means city of light history wanted the city not to reach the century of life and was devastated by the almohads years after being abandoned. Madinat al zahra is an islamic city of 112 hectares of surface area. Its construction was ordered by the first caliph of al andalus abd al rahman iii in 936 or 940.

The madinat al zahra museum appears silently in the landscape as if it had been found underground just like it will keep on happening over the course of the years with the old city of the. Standing at the foot of a mountain known as la desposada the newly wedded woman are the ruins of conjunto arqueológico de madinat al zahra its construction which began in 936 was ordered by the first caliph of al andalus abderraman iii in honour of his favourite al zahra.