Neo-Mudéjar is a type of
Moorish Revival architecture
Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th centu ...
practised in the
Iberian Peninsula
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and to a far lesser extent in
Ibero-America
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. This
architectural movement emerged as a revival of
Mudéjar style
Mudéjar were Muslims who remained in Iberia in the late medieval period following the Christian reconquest. It is also a term for Mudéjar art, which was greatly influenced by Islamic art, but produced typically by Christian craftsmen for Chri ...
. It was an architectural trend of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that began in
Madrid
Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...
and
Barcelona
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and quickly spread to other regions in Spain and Portugal. It used Mudéjar style elements such as the
horseshoe arch
The horseshoe arch (; ), also called the Moorish arch and the keyhole arch, is a type of arch in which the circular curve is continued below the horizontal line of its diameter, so that the opening at the bottom of the arch is narrower than the ar ...
, arabesque tiling, and abstract shaped brick ornamentations for the façades of modern buildings.
History
The first examples of Neo-Mudéjar buildings were the
Aguirre School designed by Rodríguez Ayuso,
the Plaza de Toros in Madrid built in 1874 (now demolished), and the
Casa Vicens by
Antoni Gaudí i Cornet.
The style then became almost "compulsory" for the construction of bullfight rings all around Spain, Portugal and the Hispanoamerican countries. In Madrid it became one of its most representative styles of the period, not only for public buildings, like the Aguirre School or the bullring of
Las Ventas, but also for housing. The use of cheap materials, mainly brick for exteriors, made it a popular style in new neighborhoods.
Neo-Mudéjar was often combined with
Neo-Gothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century ...
by architects such as
Francisco de Cubas,
Antonio María Repullés y Vargas and
Francisco Jareño. After the
Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 in
Seville
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, another stream of Neo-Mudéjar features appeared known as Andalusian Architectural Regionalism. The
Plaza de España (Seville)
or the
''ABC'' newspaper headquarters (Madrid) are examples of this new style that combined traditional
Andalusia
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n architecture with Mudéjar features.
List of notable Neo-Mudéjar buildings
*Arenas de Barcelona
*Gran Teatro Falla,
Cádiz
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Las Ventas bullring, Madrid
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Casa Vicens, Barcelona
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Monserrate Palace, Sintra
*Church of Santa Cruz, Madrid
*Palacete Conceição e Silva, Lisbon
*Church of La Paloma, Madrid
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Quinta do Relógio, Sintra
*Water tower (now exhibition space) Torre de Canal Isabel II, in Madrid.
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Escuelas Aguirre, Madrid
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Pena Palace
The Pena Palace () is a Romanticism, Romanticist castle in São Pedro de Penaferrim, in the List of municipalities of Portugal, municipality of Sintra Municipality, Sintra, on the Portuguese Riviera. The castle stands on the top of a hill in th ...
, Sintra
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Toledo railway station
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Nazaré Bullring, Nazaré
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Zaragoza
Zaragoza (), traditionally known in English as Saragossa ( ), is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributaries, the ...
Post-Office
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Campo Pequeno bullring, Lisbon
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Morisco Kiosk, Mexico City
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Palacio de Orleans-Borbón (now city hall),
Sanlúcar de Barrameda Sanlúcar may refer to:
* Sanlúcar de Barrameda, a city in the Province of Cádiz, Spain
* Sanlúcar de Guadiana, a village in the Province of Huelva, Spain
* Sanlúcar la Mayor, a city in the Province of Seville, Spain
*Sanlúcar de Albaida, forme ...
*Palacio de Doña Trinidad Grund (now town hall),
Carratraca
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Hotel Alfonso XIII, Seville
Gallery
File:Alcalá de Henares (RPS 19-08-2007) Palacio Laredo, entrada principal.jpg, Palacio Laredo in Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares () is a Spanish municipality of the Community of Madrid. Housing is primarily located on the right (north) bank of the Henares River, Henares. , it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated Municip ...
, 1884
File:Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas (Madrid) 04 modified.jpg, Las Ventas bullring, Madrid, 1929
File:Sevilla Spain Pabellon-Mudéjar-01.jpg, Mudéjar Pavilion, Museum of Arts and Traditions, Seville
Seville ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir, River Guadalquivir, ...
, 1914
File:Arc de Triomf Barcelona.jpg, Arc de Triomf, Barcelona, 1888
File:Lisboa, Campo Pequeno (7).jpg, Campo Pequeno bullring in Lisbon
Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainlan ...
(Portugal), 1892
File:Toledo station (38568788886).jpg, The Toledo railway station, 1919
File:Toledo_Train_Station_October_2022.jpg, The Toledo railway station, 1919
File:EdAníbalG001.jpg, Neo-Mudéjar building in Seville
Seville ( ; , ) is the capital and largest city of the Spain, Spanish autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the Guadalquivir, River Guadalquivir, ...
, 1909
File:002059 - Madrid (4485191184).jpg, Church of Niño Jesús in Madrid, by Francisco Jareño, 1885
File:Edificio del Reloj en la Arganzuela (14557320052).jpg, Casa del Reloj, Arganzuela
Arganzuela is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.
Geography
Position
Arganzuela is located in central-southern Madrid, separated from Latina, Carabanchel and Usera by the river Manzanares. The other bordering districts are ...
, Madrid, 1933
File:Gran Teatro Falla.JPG, Gran Teatro Falla of Cádiz
Cádiz ( , , ) is a city in Spain and the capital of the Province of Cádiz in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Andalusia. It is located in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula off the Atlantic Ocean separated fr ...
, 1884
File:ICADE (Alberto Aguilera 23, Madrid) 01.jpg, Comillas Pontifical University
Comillas Pontifical University () is a private Catholic Church, Catholic university run by the Spanish Province of the Society of Jesus in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. The university is involved in a number of academic exchange programmes, work practi ...
building in Madrid
File:Torre del Reloj, Villarrubia de los Ojos.jpg, Clock Tower in Villarrubia de los Ojos, Ciudad Real, Spain.
File:Alcalá de Henares (RPS 12-08-2007) Ermita de la Virgen del Val, fachada principal.png, Ermita de la Virgen del Val in Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares () is a Spanish municipality of the Community of Madrid. Housing is primarily located on the right (north) bank of the Henares River, Henares. , it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated Municip ...
, 1926
See also
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Moorish Revival architecture
Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th centu ...
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Spanish architecture
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Indo-Saracenic architecture
Indo-Saracenic architecture (also known as Indo-Gothic, Mughal-Gothic, Neo-Mughal) was a Revivalism (architecture), revivalist architectural style mostly used by British architects in India in the later 19th century, especially in public and gov ...
References
External links
*Cunill, Inmaculada Rodríguez
''ARQUITECTURA DEL SIGLO XIX'' .
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Architecture in Spain
Architecture in Portugal