Una nueva interpretación del patio de la Casa de Contratación del Alcázar de Sevilla

Abstract

This paper presents a review of the so called patio of the Casa de Contratación in Seville according to new data provided by recent research on the architecture of al-Andalus. Differing from traditional interpretations that supposed its origin to be in the eleventh century with two reforms in Almohad times, we propose the consideration of an initial Almohad period and successive Christian transformations, the first of which probably took place in the times of Peter the 1st, in the middle of the fourteenth century, as part as a huge construction program carried out by the Castilian monarch in the Alcazar of Seville.