Descripción é historia del castillo de la Aljafería is a nineteenth-century Spanish-language study of the Aljafería, the fortified Islamic palace built outside the walls of Zaragoza in the eleventh century. Mariano Nougués Secall traces the building’s origins under the Taifa rulers, its later use by the Aragonese monarchy, and its transformations across the centuries.
The work combines architectural description with documentary history, recording the palace’s halls, decoration, and successive alterations. As one of the finest surviving examples of Hispano-Muslim architecture in northern Spain, the Aljafería is a building of European importance, and this account preserves a detailed scholarly view of it. Note that the text is in Spanish, of particular interest to readers of Spanish architectural history.