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The Alcaicería
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| SCHEDULE | Open 24 hours. |
| PRESENTATION | Other nearby places of interest are the Royal Chapel and the José Art Center. Warrior. |
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The name of the neighborhood comes from the rightto sell silk granted by the emperor Justinian who in Arabic began to call these market places as or al-Kaysar-ia, the place of Caesar. After the conquest by the Catholic Monarchs, it happened It was called Royal Site and Fort of the Alcaicería of Granada and was regulated by the crown until 1868. In the 17th century with the decline of the silk, other products were incorporated forming the market that we can visit today although what we see today is a neo-Arabic reconstruction that took It was carried out after a huge fire that occurred in 1843.
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The Alcaicería de Granada is the shopping area par excellence around the Cathedral. Its interest lies in the fact that it continues to maintain the Muslim layout of narrow and labyrinthine streets where artisans sell their products of ceramics, inlays, colored glass or jewelry in the same way they would do it in the Middle Ages in their souk. In the buildings of this market we can find the Muslim architectural influence in its characteristic lobed plaster arches, lattices and sprouted windows and all types of geometric decoration and the cruelty typical of their culture.
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