During the mid-nineteenth century, the Spanish Romantics made a great intellectual effort to integrate the Islamic architecture of Spain into the construction of the first overviews of the history of Spanish architecture. This kind of «nationalization» would take form soon afterwards in the various pavilions that constituted the official image of Spain at the great international expositions of the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth century.
Orientalism, architectural historiography, international expositions, neo-Islamic architecture.