Patio Mexuar - Mexuar Courtyard

Mexuar Courtyard – A Place of Power and Simple Beauty
The Mexuar Courtyard features a small fountain in its centre, with two facing facades, one with three arches belonging to the Mexuar Palace.

The Mexuar Courtyard was the administrative area of ​​the Nasrid palace. Here stood the Mexuar, the hall where the sultan and his advisors listened to the people, resolved problems, and made important decisions. Although it is a small courtyard, it beautifully combines practicality with decoration.

On one side, you will see the Golden Room (Cuarto Dorado), so named for its decorated wooden ceiling. Its facade, adorned with plasterwork featuring geometric and floral motifs and Arabic phrases, is one of the finest in the entire Alhambra.

There was once a small reflecting pool, but today the courtyard is primarily understood as a passageway: the point that leads you from the official areas to the more intimate and decorative spaces of the Nasrid Palaces.