Beautiful as are the relics of Saracenic architecture in Egypt, Syria, and Persia, they are excelled by many remarkable buildings in Spain, where, after the conquest of the country by the Moors in the 8th century, the style reached its fullest development.
"Architecture"
Nancy R E Meugens Bell
Certain very marked characteristics distinguish the buildings of Sicily from those of contemporary date on the mainland of Italy, the Romanesque style, as is very clearly seen in the Cathedral of Monreale, having been there considerably modified alike by Saracenic and Norman influences.
"Architecture"
Nancy R E Meugens Bell
It was the golden age of Saracenic architecture, and Cairo is still full of the monuments of Nasir's emirs.
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