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Alcázar
The Alcázar of Jerez, is one of the most emblematic monuments of the city. Its walled enclosure forms a complex defensive system together with the walls, towers and gates.
The term Alcázar, comes from Arabic, al-qasr and define a set of buildings, surrounded by walls, which were the seat of political and military power with autonomous functioning, which governed the city and its territory.
Filmed here
In ‘El verano que vivimos’, on the roof of the Villavicencio Palace in the Alcázar, Gonzalo shows Hernán and Lucía the project for his winery. She suggests several ideas, and after agreeing, the architect takes a picture of the couple. From that same position, in a scene set in the 90s, Isabel and Carlos contemplate the remains of the winery which Gonzalo built.
Inside the Alcázar of Jerez, a 15-story structure half-built and subsequently demolished was used to represent a community house of neighbours in a decadent building in Havana, in ‘Cuba‘.