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The castle also served as the French home of Sir Lancelot du Lac, Joyous Gard, in the 1967 musical film Camelot. The castle's silhouette and overall appearance also inspired the castle in Disney's 1937 animated classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Sylvain Castle, a dungeon in the 1995 action RPG Terranigma, is based on it.
InFocus: Alcázar of Seville (Sevilla, Spain) at HitchHikers Handbook; Images of the Alcázar in Seville – 105 images with good descriptions of the Alcázar and its history. Casa de la Contratación – in depth historical article. El Real Alcázar de Sevilla (In Spanish, English and French) UNESCO World Heritage
What started as a weirdly shaped object sticking up from the dirt later became a puzzle for archaeologists.
Castle of Paderne; Lisbon. Castle of São Jorge: almost entirely rebuilt after the Portuguese conquest; only some archeological remains [31] and a small part of the northern wall are preserved from the Islamic period [32] Mértola. Church of Nossa Senhora da Anunciação: former mosque; Silves. Castle of Silves; Sintra. Castle of the Moors
An alcázar, from Arabic al-Qasr, is a type of Islamic castle or palace in Spain built during Muslim rule between the 8th and 15th centuries. They functioned as homes and regional capitals for governmental figures throughout the Umayyad caliphate and later for Christian rulers following the Iberian Reconquista .
Dating back to the early 12th century, the Alcázar of Segovia is one of the most distinctive medieval castles in Europe. Disney was inspired by this site in building Cinderella's castle. The castles in Spain were built mainly for the country's defense, particularly with respect to fortification.
In the 17th century Seville fell into a deep economic and urban decline as a consequence of the general economic crisis that struck Europe and Spain in particular. [83] This decline was aggravated in Seville by river floods and the great plague of 1649, which may have killed some 60,000 people, nearly half of the existing population of 130,000.
Inside the tower there is a museum on Pre-Romanesque art that is a valuable collection of pieces and tombstones from the church of San Martín, hence the name Museo Prerrománico de San Martín de Salas. The pieces provide an insight into the decorative richness of Pre-Romanesque art during the 10th century in Spain. [4]