El pasado en el presente de Sevilla: la Giralda como monumento disputado (1198-1568)

Abstract

As urban landmarks, monuments are capable of assuming the most diverse, even contradictory meanings. A remarkable instance of the above is the Giralda tower in the Cathedral of Sevilla. Built at the end of the Xllth C. as part of the mosque, as a sign of the moslem triumph over the christians (identified as «romans», hence the roman inscriptions embedded at the base), in the second half of the XVIth C. undeiwent an important reform designed to transform it in an emblem of the christian triumph over the moslems.