Alcazar
Alcazar or variant spellings may refer to:
- Alcázar, a type of Islamic castle or palace in Spain and Portugal
Arts, entertainment and literature
[edit]- Alcazar (group), a Swedish europop/dance music group
- Alcazar: The Forgotten Fortress, a 1985 video game
- General Alcazar, a fictional character, friend of Tintin
- Roberto Alcázar y Pedrín , a Spanish comic from 1940
- Teatro Alcázar, a theatre in Madrid, Spain
- Alcazar (Paris) (later Alcazar d'Hiver), a café-concert in Paris 1858–1902
- Alcazar d'Été, a café-concert in Paris 1860–1914
Businesses and organisations
[edit]- Alcazar Hotel (disambiguation), the name of several hotels
- Alcazar (airline), a 1993 proposed airline merger
Places
[edit]- Alcàsser (Spanish: Alcácer), a municipality in Horta Sud, Valencian Community, Spain
- Alcázar de Colón, a fortified Spanish palace located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos, a medieval castle located in the historic centre of Córdoba, Spain
- Alcázar de San Juan, or Alcázar, a town and municipality in Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
- Alcázar del Rey, a municipality in Cuenca, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
- Alcácer do Sal, a municipality in Setúbal District, Portugal
- Alcázar Genil, a medieval palace located in the historic centre of Granada, Spain
- Alcázar of Jerez de la Frontera, medieval castle in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia, Spain
- Alcázar of Segovia, medieval castle located in the city of Segovia, Castile and León, Spain
- Alcázar of Seville, a royal palace in Seville, Spain
- Alcázar of the Caliphs (Córdoba), remains of a former fortified medieval palace located in Córdoba, Spain
- Alcázar of Toledo, a fortified medieval palace located in Toledo, Spain
- El Alcázar, Misiones, a village in Argentina
- Gate of Sevilla (Carmona), also known as the Alcázar de la Puerta de Sevilla, remains of a former fortified medieval palace located in Carmona, Spain
- Los Alcázares, a municipality and a coastal spa town and former fishing village on the western side of the Mar Menor in Murcia, southeastern Spain
- Royal Alcázar of Madrid, a former fortress located at the site of today's Royal Palace of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Alcazar (Marseille), a library and former theatre in Marseille, France
People
[edit]- Baltasar del Alcázar (1530–1606), Spanish poet
- Paco Alcácer (born 1993), Spanish footballer
Other uses
[edit]- El Alcázar, a Spanish newspaper 1936–1988
- Alcázar Basket, a former Spanish basketball team
- Hyundai Alcazar, a crossover SUV
See also
[edit]- Alcazaba (disambiguation)
- Alcalá (disambiguation)
- Alcántara (disambiguation)
- Qasr (disambiguation)
- Alcocer (derives from a diminutive of alcázar), a municipality in Castile-La Mancha, Spain
- Alcocer de Planes, a municipality in Valencia, Spain
- Alcossebre, a town in Alcalà de Xivert, Valencia, Spain
- Ksar el-Kebir (Spanish: Alcazarquivir, Portuguese: Alcácer-Quibir), a city in northwest Morocco
- Siege of the Alcázar, 1936 Spanish Civil War event in Toledo