{"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-cordova-spagna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/spain\/andalusia\/medina-azahara-cordoba-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Medina Azahara, Cordova, Spagna"},"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

Cosa vedere<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

La citt\u00e0 \u00e8 stata costruita su terrazze lungo il fianco di una collina, quindi si scende a piedi attraverso diversi livelli. La parte pi\u00f9 bella \u00e8 la Sala di Abd al-Rahman III, una sala di ricevimento con archi a ferro di cavallo ricostruiti e raffinate decorazioni in pietra scolpita. Si possono inoltre ammirare i resti di strade, case, giardini, della moschea e del grande portico ad archi del palazzo. Dal sito si gode di un\u2019ampia vista sulla valle del fiume Guadalquivir. Iniziate la visita dal museo moderno situato accanto al parcheggio, che illustra la storia della citt\u00e0 ed espone reperti rinvenuti durante gli scavi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come arrivare e informazioni pratiche<\/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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Le rovine di una citt\u00e0-palazzo del X secolo costruita dai califfi di Cordova, sito patrimonio mondiale dell'UNESCO in Spagna.<\/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\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16595,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16514\/revisions\/16595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}