Royal Alcázar of Seville

This guide to the Royal Alcázar in Seville opens at the entrance gate, where an Arabic inscription praises Allah above a doorway built for a Christian king. It follows Pedro the First, who hired Muslim craftsmen from Toledo and Granada around 1364 to raise his palace, including men pulled off the same crews building the Alhambra. You'll hear about the Hall of Ambassadors, its gilded cedar ceiling and the room named for the Toledo carpenters who built it. The guide weighs what it meant for a defeated people's finest builders to spend a decade praising the man who beat their kin in battle.