Aljafería Palace is a fortified medieval Islamic palace built during the second half of the 11th century in the Moorish taifa of Zaragoza of Al-Andalus, which is now present day Zaragoza, Spain. (A taifa was an independent Muslim-ruled principality) . in the 1200s, a coalition of Christian kings drove the Moors from Spain in a 300 year long campaign called the Reconquista..The Spanish called the Moors who remained in these newly conquered territories ‘Mudéjares’.Mudéjar is also the name of the architectural style from this period. Mudéjar is widely accepted as a hybrid of Moorish, Gothic and Romanesque styles.