List of Moorish structures in Spain and Portugal

This is a list of preserved or partly-preserved Moorish architecture in Spain and Portugal from the period of Muslim rule on the Iberian Peninsula (known as al-Andalus) from the 8th to 15th centuries. The list is organized by geographic location.

Spain

Alhama de Granada

• Arab baths of Alhama de Granada

Alicante

• Santa Bárbara Castle

Almería

• Alcazaba
• Church of San Juan: former site of the city's Great Mosque, with an Almohad-era mihrab still preserved

Antequera

• Alcazaba

Árchez

• Church of Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación: Nasrid minaret at the Mudéjar-style

Badajoz

• Alcazaba

Baños de la Encina

• Burgalimar Castle: Umayyad-era castle built in 967

Córdoba

• Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba
• Madinat al-Zahra
• Caliphal Baths
• Calahorra Tower
• Noria of Albolafia
• Synagogue
• Church of San Juan de los Caballeros: the bell tower, also known as the "Minaret of San Juan", once belonged to a mosque (930)

Gibraltar

• Moorish Castle

Gormaz

• Castle of Gormaz: 10th-century castle, with later modifications

Granada

• Alhambra
• Alcazaba: the main fortress of the Alhambra
• Mexuar: one of the palaces partially preserved today
• Comares Palace: one of the palaces preserved today
• Palace of the Lions: one of the palaces preserved today
• Partal Palace: one of the palaces preserved today
• Palacio del Partal Alto: a former palace whose excavated remains are visible today
• Palace of the Convent of San Francisco: a former palace whose remains were incorporated into a later Christian convent
• Palace of the Abencerrajes: a former palace whose excavated remains are visible today
• Torre de la Cautiva: one of several similar tower-residences, with other examples including the Torre de las Infantas and the Peinador de la Reina
• Generalife: a country palace, originally linked to the Alhambra by a covered walkway across the ravine that divides them
• Madrasa of Granada: prayer hall preserved inside a later Spanish Baroque building
• Corral del Carbón: a funduq (caravanserai)
• Alcaicería of Granada: Nasrid-era bazaar, but destroyed by fire in 19th century and rebuilt in different style
• Albaicín quarter
• El Bañuelo (Arab Baths)
• Dar al-Horra
• City walls and gates (remains from Zirid and Nasrid periods)
• Church of San José: Zirid-era minaret (ca. 1055)
• Church of San Juan de los Reyes: Almohad-era minaret
• Casa de Zafra
• Church of San Salvador: remains of the courtyard and minaret of the former congregational mosque of the Albaicín
• Maristan of Granada
• Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo: partly-preserved Nasrid palace
• Alcázar Genil: former Almohad and Nasrid-era residence, as well as a nearby ribat (rábita) converted into the Hermitage of San Sebastián

Fiñana

• Ermita de Nuestro Padre Jesús: former Almohad mosque with remains of mihrab and surface decoration

Jaén

• Arab Baths of Jaén
• Castle of Santa Catalina

Jerez de la Frontera

• Alcazar

Málaga

• Alcazaba
• Gibralfaro Castle
• Bobastro (located in Málaga Province), archaeological site and former 9th-century fortress

Mérida

• Alcazaba

Murcia

• Castillejo de Monteagudo
• Monastery of Santa Clara: remains of 12th-century al-Qasr al-Seghir (Alcázar Seguir)
• Museum of the Church of San Juan de Dios: remains of mihrab of the former mosque of the main citadel (Alcázar Mayor)

Niebla

• City walls and gates

Ronda

• Arab baths of Ronda
• Remains of mihrab of former main mosque at the Cathedral of Ronda

Seville

• Giralda: former minaret of the Almohad Great Mosque of Seville (now the Seville Cathedral)
• Torre del Oro: Almohad defensive tower in Seville
• Alcazar of Seville: mostly rebuilt under Christian rule but in Moorish style, with the help of craftsmen from Granada
• Walls of Seville
• Buhaira Gardens: former Almohad palace and garden
• Church of San Salvador: preserves traces of the former Mosque of Ibn Adabbas on this site, the first city's first great mosque

Tarifa

• Castle of Tarifa

Toledo

• Mosque of Cristo de la Luz
• Puerta de Bisagra
• Puerta de Alcántara
• Mosque of las Tornerías
• Church of San Román (Mudéjar architecture)
• Synagogue of Santa Maria la Blanca (Mudéjar architecture)
• Synagogue del Tránsito (Mudéjar architecture)

Trujillo

• Alcazaba

Zaragoza

• Aljafería: palace of the Banu Hud dynasty (second half of the 11th century)

Portugal

Albufeira

• Castle of Paderne

Lisbon

• Castle of São Jorge: almost entirely rebuilt after the Portuguese conquest; only some archeological remains and a small part of the northern wall are preserved from the Islamic period

Mértola

• Church of Nossa Senhora da Anunciação: former mosque

Silves

• Castle of Silves

Sintra

• Castle of the Moors

Loulé

• Islamic baths: remains now on display in the municipal museum (Museu Municipal de Loulé), probably dating to the mid-12th century.

See also

• Alcazar of the Caliphs in Córdoba (no longer extant)
• List of former mosques in Spain
• List of former mosques in Portugal

References