Abd-el-Rahman III commissioned the Medina Al-Zahra after elevating himself to Caliph of Córdob and to secure his supremacy in Al-Andalus in the middle of the tenth century.
New solutions will mitigate the effects of depopulation, gentrification, and the boom of the modern tourism industry on this historic urban housing typology
The rock art in La Garma and the surrounding caves make up one of the best archaeological sequences in Europe, with evidence of human activity spanning over 300,000 years, up until the Middle Ages.
The rural communities of the Tebaida Leonesa face the challenges of preserving the character of their villages and landscape in the face of growing tourism and development.
The neighborhood of Albayzin in Granada, Spain, contains several Moorish houses, some dating to the period of the Alhambra, many of which were built in the 16th century.
Nestled in the Vall de Boí in Spain’s Catalonian Pyrenees, the Hermitage of Sant Quirc is part of a remarkable group of Romanesque churches built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
The Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Saviour in Oviedo, built between the ninth and the sixteenth centuries, displays architectural styles from pre-Romanesque to Baroque.
Flour windmills from the 16th to the 19th centuries, are still a significant feature of the landscape of the Balearic Islands, and are a strong symbol of prosperity and engineering acumen.