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The documented history of Madrid dates to the 9th century, even though the area has been inhabited since the Stone Age. The primitive nucleus of Madrid , a walled military outpost in the left bank of the Manzanares , dates back to the second half of the 9th century, during the rule of the Emirate of Córdoba .
The Christian Walls of Madrid, also known as the Medieval Walls, were built in Madrid, Spain, between the 11th and 12th centuries, once the city passed to the Crown of Castile. They were built as an extension of the original 9th-century Muslim Walls of Madrid to accommodate the new districts which emerged after the Reconquista (11th–13th ...
Plan of the different Walls of Madrid, published in 1847 in the Semanario Pintoresco Español. Madrid with its walls (red line) in 1831. The Walls of Madrid (Spanish: cerca de Madrid, tapia de Madrid) are the five successive sets of walls that surrounded the city of Madrid from the Middle Ages until the end of the 19th century.
Madrid del siglo IX al XI: [Exhibition held in] Madrid (in Spanish) (1st ed.). Madrid: Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. pp. 247– 259. Comunidad de Madrid, Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural; Montero Vallejo, M. (2003). El Madrid Medieval. Nueva edición revisada y aumentada (in Spanish) (1st ed.).
Very little medieval architecture is preserved in Madrid, and most of it is located inside the Almendra Central. Historical documents show that the city was walled and had a castle (the Alcázar ) in the same place where the Royal Palace now stands.
The Royal Alcazar of Madrid was a palace built by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, (rebuilt by his son, Philip II) and was the main royal residence in Madrid until the Buen Retiro Palace partly superseded it in the 17th century. It was destroyed by fire in 1734, and the present Royal Palace of Madrid was built on the site.
The medieval collection features the praying statue of Peter I of Castile , made in alabaster and moved from the former convent of Santo Domingo el Real in Madrid to the National Archaeological Museum in 1868. [22] [21] It also displays a number of items of Levantine pottery. [21]
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Madrid, Spain. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .