Spain · Restored
Alcazaba of Badajoz
The Alcazaba of Badajoz is a large hilltop Moorish citadel overlooking the city of Badajoz and the Guadiana river in Extremadura, western Spain. Its present fabric mostly reflects a major 12th-century rebuilding and it contains a line of curtain walls, numerous defensive towers and the site of the old Muslim palace and mosque.
Its prime
1169
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1169
The shape it held in its prime.
A compact rectangular citadel about 400 by 200 metres on a river-facing hill, defined by continuous pale stone and rendered curtain walls with crenellated parapets and regularly spaced towers. The skyline is punctuated by a tall octagonal defensive tower and several square towers; inside the walls are clusters of low, red-tiled roofs and the mass of a large hypostyle mosque-hall. A gravel wall-walk runs along the parapet above steep slopes toward the river.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1169.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at Alcazaba of Badajoz — including 3 interiors: great mosque (hypostyle hall), palace complex and baths area, puerta del capitel (gate passage). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Alcazaba of Badajoz with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1169 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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