{"id":16514,"date":"2026-10-04T22:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=16514"},"modified":"2026-10-04T22:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:36:31","slug":"medina-azahara-cordoba-espana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/spain\/andalusia\/medina-azahara-cordoba-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Medina Azahara, C\u00f3rdoba, Espa\u00f1a"},"content":{"rendered":"

Medina Azahara (Madinat al-Zahra) is the ruins of a great palace city near C\u00f3rdoba, in Andalusia, in the south of Spain. It was built from the year 936 by Abd al-Rahman III, the first caliph of C\u00f3rdoba, when C\u00f3rdoba was one of the richest cities in Europe. The city had palaces, gardens, mosques, homes and offices, and it was the centre of government. But it was used for only about 70 years. Around 1010 it was destroyed during a civil war and slowly forgotten. Today it is an important archaeological site and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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La ciudad se construy\u00f3 en terrazas en la ladera de una colina, por lo que se recorre descendiendo por diferentes niveles. La parte m\u00e1s bonita es la Sala de Abd al-Rahman III, una sala de recepciones con arcos de herradura reconstruidos y una elegante decoraci\u00f3n de piedra tallada. Tambi\u00e9n se pueden ver los restos de calles, casas, jardines, la mezquita y el gran p\u00f3rtico abovedado del palacio. Desde el yacimiento hay amplias vistas sobre el valle del r\u00edo Guadalquivir. Empieza tu visita en el museo moderno situado junto al aparcamiento. En \u00e9l se explica la historia de la ciudad y se exponen objetos hallados durante las excavaciones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

C\u00f3mo llegar e informaci\u00f3n pr\u00e1ctica<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Medina Azahara is about 8 kilometres west of the centre of C\u00f3rdoba. You can go by car, taxi, organised tour or tourist bus from the city. From the museum and car park, a small shuttle bus takes visitors up to the ruins, about 2 kilometres away. Entry to the site is free for citizens of the European Union and costs very little for other visitors, and there is a small charge for the shuttle bus. The site is closed on Mondays. There is little shade, so in summer it is best to visit early in the day and bring water and a hat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Las ruinas de una ciudad palaciega del siglo X construida por los califas de C\u00f3rdoba, declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO en Espa\u00f1a.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,977,961,1077],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-andalusia","category-architecture","category-spain","category-unesco-heritage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16595,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16514\/revisions\/16595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}