Giralda's Minaret, by Almohad craftsmen, 1184-1198, 12th and 16th century, Seville, Spain (masonry)

Whole artwork view. Sight of the western and southern facades of the Giralda, today bell tower of the Seville's cathedral, whose pinnacles appear on bottom left, but once the minaret of the mosque as well as the highest tower in the world in the twelfth century; marble balustrades on the balconies and thin half columns of blind archways along the elevations interrupt the continuous brickwork, embellished with refined interlaces patterns; the apex of the tower, dominated by the bronze wind vane called Giraldillo, was built in the Renaissance. Maestranze almohadite Seville, Spain