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The yard of the mosque of cordoba it configures in the first construction, the carried out for Abd |al|, Rahman I and Hixam I. Abd |al| , Rahman II will be the promoter of the colonnade it goes by a roundabout way the yard, that will be enlarged by Abd to the -Rahman III, just as the minaret. Almanzor will be the representative to enlarge the yard towards the east, by ending the decoration of the port of the pardon. The conversion of the mosque in cathedral during the XVI century will assume the end of the yard according to the Islamic typology and the creation of this yard as place of spiritual absorption before accessing to the temple. The current university councils are product of the |remodelación| that it carry out in the first decades of the XVI century, for mandate of the Martín Fernández bishop of angle, by selecting to Hernán Ruiz I as representative architect of the project. In the XIII century they had planted palm trees and in the xv exist data of the presence of orange trees, by adding olive trees and main altars in the XVIII.

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