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Beside the Guadalquivir river in the historic heart of Cordoba, the Alcazar de los Reyes Cristianos, the Castle of the Christian Monarchs, is a fortress-palace whose walls and gardens encapsulate the layered history of one of the most significant cities of medieval Spain. The present structure was built in the fourteenth century by King Alfonso XI on the site of earlier Moorish and Roman fortifications, and it became a residence of the Castilian monarchs. The Alcazar holds a notable place in his...