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The Palacio de Galiana is a palace in Toledo
Toledo, Spain

Toledo is a city and municipality located in central Spain, 70 km south of Madrid. It is the capital city of the province of Toledo and of the autonomous communities of Spain of Castile-La Mancha....
 on the borders of the Tagus river. It was built on the the site of an earlier summer villa of the Taifa king Al-Mamun of Toledo
Al-Mamun of Toledo

Yahya ibn Ismail al-Mamun or Yahya ben Ismael ben-Dylinun of the Banu Dil-Nun dynasty was king of the Kingdom of Toledo between 1043 and 1075....
 in the thirteenth century by Alphonso X. The palace was built in the Mudéjar
Mudéjar

Mud?jar is the name given to the Moors or Muslims of Al-Andalus who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista but were not converted to Christianity....
 style and retains many characteristics of the Andalusian
Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to the parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Arab Muslims, at various times in the period between 711 and 1492....
 times. The palace consists of a hall divided into three parallel naves with rooms at each end linked by a passageway.






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The Palacio de Galiana is a palace in Toledo
Toledo, Spain

Toledo is a city and municipality located in central Spain, 70 km south of Madrid. It is the capital city of the province of Toledo and of the autonomous communities of Spain of Castile-La Mancha....
 on the borders of the Tagus river. It was built on the the site of an earlier summer villa of the Taifa king Al-Mamun of Toledo
Al-Mamun of Toledo

Yahya ibn Ismail al-Mamun or Yahya ben Ismael ben-Dylinun of the Banu Dil-Nun dynasty was king of the Kingdom of Toledo between 1043 and 1075....
 in the thirteenth century by Alphonso X. The palace was built in the Mudéjar
Mudéjar

Mud?jar is the name given to the Moors or Muslims of Al-Andalus who remained in Christian territory after the Reconquista but were not converted to Christianity....
 style and retains many characteristics of the Andalusian
Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to the parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Arab Muslims, at various times in the period between 711 and 1492....
 times. The palace consists of a hall divided into three parallel naves with rooms at each end linked by a passageway. The name of the palace, Galiana, is derived from a fictive character, Aisha Galiana, the daughter of an imaginary Moorish king Aljafra. She figures in medieval chansons
Chanson de geste

The chansons de geste, Old French for "songs of heroic deeds [or lineages]", are the epic poetry that appear at the dawn of French literature....
 and subsequently in the works of Cervantes
Cervantes

Cervantes refers to:...
 and Lope de Vega
Lope de Vega

Lope de Vega was a Spain Spanish Baroque literature playwright and poet. His reputation in the world of Spanish language letters is second only to that of Miguel de Cervantes, while the sheer volume of his literary output is unequalled:...
.

The area around the palace, called the 'Al-Munya al-Na‘ura' (the Water Wheel Orchard) or 'Huerta del Rey' (the king's garden) included a botanical garden of the pharmacologist Ibn al-Wafid
Ibn al-Wafid

Ali Ibn al-Husain Ibn al-Wafid was a pharmacologist and physician from Toledo, Spain. He was the vizier of Al-Mamun of Toledo. His main work is Kitab al-adwiya al-mufrada ....
. It was famous for its irrigation works, the ruins of which are still to be seen. The garden was also, possibly, the location of a water clock
Water clock

A water clock or clepsydra is any timekeeper operated by means of a regulated flow of liquid into or out from a vessel where the amount is then measured....
, constructed by Al-Zarqali.

From the 1950s onwards the Palacio de Galiana was restored and its present garden designed by the architects Manuel Gomez Moreno and Fernando Chueca Goitia under the auspices of its owner Carmen Maranon.

See also

  • Generalife
    Generalife

    The Palacio de Generalife was the summer palace and country estate of the Nasrid sultans of Granada.The palace and gardens were built during the reign of Muhammed III, Sultan of Granada and redecorated shortly after by Ismail I, Sultan of Granada ....
  • Huerta de la Alcurnia
    Huerta de la Alcurnia

    Huerta de la Alcurnia was a garden between the south side city walls of Toledo, Spain and the Tagus. Its name is derived from the Arabic "Munya al-kudya", meaning garden on an higher ground....


External Links

  • Thorough report and extensive references on the early history of the palace, photos and map at the bottom, on Middle East Gardens.com (retrieved on November 27, 2008)
  • Photos of the Palacio de Galiana on Oronoz.com (retrieved on November 27, 2008)
  • In Spanish: Jésus Téllez Rubio, "Dos Agrónomos Toledanos: Ibn Wâfid e Ibn Bassâl, y la Huerta del Rey" in: Tulaytula: Revista de la Asociación de Amigos del Toledo Islámico, ISSN 1575-653X, Nº. 4, 1999, pags. 49-58 (click on 'descargar' PDF) (retrieved on November 30, 2008)
  • Julián Ramos Ramos, "Las almunias de la ciudad de Toledo", in: Tulaytula: Revista de la Asociación de Amigos del Toledo Islámico, ISSN 1575-653X, Nº. 3, 1998 , pags. 51-76 (click on 'descargar' PDF)
  • Wikimapia (retrieved on November 27, 2008)


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