General view of Medina Azahara. Ideal reconstruction of the "bright city" fortress, the most extraordinary and prodigious construction of Islam according to the Andalusian geographer al-Zuhri, an ephemeral city that shone with maximum splendor in only a century, reflecting the social and cultural flowering of the Caliphate in al-Andalus as a result of the centralization of Umayyad power in the region.
General view of Medina Azahara. Ideal reconstruction of the "bright city" fortress, the most extraordinary and prodigious construction of Islam according to the Andalusian geographer al-Zuhri, an ephemeral city that shone with maximum splendor in only a century, reflecting the social and cultural flowering of the Caliphate in al-Andalus as a result of the centralization of Umayyad power in the region.