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"The Alcazar commands a strategic outcropping of the city's plateau high above the juncture of two small rivers. It is, of course, everyone's personal castle in Spain. Built in the eleventh century and rebuilt in the early fifteenth, it has a dashing, even romantic intimacy with its site that is difficult to equal. Muslim influence is seen in the name and in the building itself, particularly the interior."

— G.E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. p80.

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Fletcher says 1410 to 1455.

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Sir Banister Fletcher. Sir Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture. 18th ed., revised by J.C. Palmes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. ISBN 684-14207-4. NA200.F63. mentioned, p770.

G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1990. ISBN 0-8109-3556-2. LC 90-30728. NA200.S57 1990. exterior distant photo of castle from road, p80.

Russell Sturgis. The Architecture Sourcebook. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984. ISBN 0-442-20831-9. LC 84-7275. NA2840.S78. plan drawing, p322.

Alberto Weissmüller. photographs by Alberto Weissmüller. Castles from the Heart of Spain. New York: Clarkson N. Potter Inc., 1967. exterior perspective of John II's Tower, p125. exterior perspective of towers, p145. exterior perspective overview, p125.

Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM. Artifice, 2001. ISBN 0-9667098-4-5.— Available at Amazon.com

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